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Desperate Times the World Over

"Unless there is a national effort to enlist doctors, nurses, hospital workers of all kinds and get them where they are needed most in the country in time, I don't see, honestly, how we're going to have the professionals we need to get through this crisis."
"This country is not in a position to deal with this crisis going forward. Whatever we've seen up until now, I'm guaranteeing you next week is going to be a lot tougher."
"[The federal government must] step up and provide the reinforcements we need. [The] battle will be long and we cannot fight it alone."
"Anyone who's not already in this fight, we need you [help from] any health care professional: Doctor, nurse, respiratory therapist, you name it."
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio

New York City hospitals have reported equipment shortages   Getty Images

With lightning speed and destruction New York has fallen under the hammer of the COVID-19 emergency, relentlessly cutting a wide swath through the city's population, infecting 63,000 New Yorkers, with the deaths of 3,500 so far. New York, the most populous city in the country has become the epicentre of the novel coronavirus pandemic, leading its mayor to appeal to the federal government for a national draft of medical workers to be transferred to New York, in its approaching "D-Day". Without such dedicated assistance, he stressed, thousands more would die.

Over a thousand people in New York died in one week alone, and there is no foreseeable decline in the predation rate of this seemingly unstoppable virus. The epidemic's peak is not envisioned for another two or three weeks. As for the hospitals' readiness and the medical profession's concerns, one doctor heading an emergency department in a hospital in the city stated that there were insufficient medically-trained staff to properly use the ventilators they were expecting to receive.

"We have staff getting sick and no one wants to come back to help, and I get it, I really do. It's hell on Earth."

New York state is the epicentre of the coronavirus crisis in the US    Getty Images

And although the most trusted of the country's medical experts on the pandemic, Dr.Anthony Fauci, has been attempting to impress on the federal administration the dire need for a nationwide lockdown, a stay-at-home order from the White House, there appears to be no intention on the part of President Donald Trump to declare such an order. Leading Dr. Fauci, himself a leading member of the coronavirus task force advising the White House, to express his frustration publicly that a nationwide lockdown hasn't yet been issued by the president.

North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa and Arkansas among other states currently have issued no stay-at-home orders. Only parts of Texas, Alabama and Oklahoma have seen fit to order such self-isolation orders even while cases in the United States continue to soar to a quarter of the total global coronavirus cases, with an overall death score from the virus of 8,452, and total cases standing at 311,357, there is a desperate need to find a safe and reliable vaccine. The world count of novel coronavirus cases has reached 1,201,000, with a death total of 64,676, a nightmare without end.

One ray of hope in the Mayo Clinic, representing one of the world's most advanced health care facilities, havng announced that it is closing in on completing an accurate antibody test that can be widely distributed, as a first step toward unlocking the deadly secrets of the SARS-CoV-19 global pandemic of COVID-19, on the way to bringing it under control and safeguarding the future of humanity.