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United States : Runaway Virus Transmission Cases

"The most outrageous lies are the ones about COVID-19."
"Everyone is lying. The CDC, media, Democrats, our doctors, not all but most, that we are told to trust."
Chuck Woolery, former American game show host

"The virus remains public enemy number one."
"If basics are not followed, the only way this pandemic is going to go, it is going to get worse and worse and worse." 
"But it does not have to be this way."
World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Over 3.5 million Americans have been diagnosed infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus; of that number 137,800 American deaths have resulted. Representing a staggering number of infections and an even more unbelievable number of COVID-related deaths. American President Donald Trump is in a permanent state of disbelief. Disbelief that the infection is as serious as science has described it, disbelief that a simple malaria drug is not being recognized for its vaccinating qualities; disbelief that the American economy has taken a swift and deep downturn even as he faces a November election.

As a demonstration of just how skeptical Mr. Trump is about the dire warnings of opening up the U.S. economy too soon and its consequences, already more than adequately being observed in the swift rise of cases and deaths, he retweeted the spurious charges made by Chuck Woolery; as good as a complete supporting endorsement of the conspiracy theory being espoused. President Trump has clout among the easily lead in America, with his 83 million Twitter followers.

In his considered opinion, government health officials and their opening-up guidelines threaten the shutdown easing across the country. Taking direct aim at the Centres for Disease Control, the nation's leading health advocacy and statistical-research tool, President Trump claimed to feel the CDC guidelines for reopening the nation's schools were too difficult, impractical and expensive. What expenses should be directed toward ensuring safety for a nation's children?

Another Woolery charge is that Dr.Anthony Fauci, the country's top infectious diseases authority,  foresees a requirement for "an ID card to go shopping", interpreting Dr.Fauci's observation of the possibility that the U.S. could issue a certification of immunity in the future. Dr.Fauci distinguished himself throughout White House coronavirus briefings when he candidly spoke to the public of the viral threat the country was facing, sugar-coating nothing, treating his audience as responsible adults.


Increasingly, as time went on, tensions arose between President Trump and Dr.Fauci, as they invariably do any time anyone invested with an earned authority disputes or contradicts any random thoughts that Mr.Trump expresses.  

"Dr.Fauci is a nice man, but he's made a lot of mistakes", President Trump casually remarked in an interview, of the man from whom he has not taken a briefing in several months.

Ever so  helpfully, the Trump White House distributed lists of statements that Dr. Fauci had committed to, early in the pandemic that he would later correct, as more data on understanding the trajectory of the disease develop. Infections are in the process of rapidly rising in Florida, Arizona, Texas and another 35 states, while the CDC and health officials plead with the public to wear face masks to limit the virus spread, even as Trump supporters, following his lead, reject masks.

When the first cases were hesitantly reported in China in January, three months later the infection globally reached the one million cases mark. It took a mere five days for total numbers to climb to 13 million -- a rise of a million from the 12 million cases recorded on July 8. India alone since early July has registered an average of 23,000 new infections daily.

Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci takes a selfie before a House Committee on Energy and Commerce on the Trump administration's response to the COVID-19 pandemic on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 23, 2020. (Kevin Dietsch / Pool via AP)