translated from Spanish: US expresses ‘cautious optimism’ as New York approaches 10,000 deaths

The latest figures for hospitalizations, admissions in intensive care units and intubations in New York, the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic, have led top U.S. experts to express a “cautious optimism” to begin reopening the country on May, on a Palm Sunday with empty churches, and where the New York region is close to recording the 10,000 deaths.
United States. it was already registering nearly 547,000 infections on Sunday, more than three times as many as any other country in the world, surpassing 21,600 deaths, according to the latest data from Johns Hopkins University, while New York State authorities revealed that 758 more people died from coronavirus died Saturday.
This is the sixth day in a row that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo reports that more than 700 people have lost their lives in the region who are victims of the pandemic, so 10,000 deaths are likely to be over the next few hours.

The director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Anthony Fauci, the country’s leading expert during the crisis, on Sunday expressed a “cautious optimism” about the slowdown in coronavirus expansion and noted that “perhaps next month” the country’s partial reopening could begin.
“When you look at admissions, hospitalizations, intensive care, and intubation needs, you’re starting to turn the corner,” said Fauci, one of the world’s most respected epidemiologists and a member of the White House’s anti-virus task council, on new York figures.
“So that’s what we expect, there’s cautious optimism about seeing that decline,” added Fauci, who alluded to the patterns that have been followed in other countries and the “acute decline” of the virus once there are beginning to see declines in hospitals.
In fact, he stressed that there are “indications” that some of the data used to measure the evolution of the health crisis are “starting to stabilize” in some places.

This would be the case in New York State, where, despite already recording a total of 9,385 deaths and approaching with firm pace to 10,000 deaths, it is considered “good news” that the number of hospital admissions has fallen.
“That’s the number we’ve been looking at because we were so afraid that the hospital system would be overwhelmed,” the region’s top representative, who also noted that the number of discharges, said on Sunday.
Despite these positive facts, which are joined by a sharp decline in intubations announced by the mayor of the Big Apple, Bill de Blasio, the situation in New York is “tragic”, in the words of the governor himself.
“Each of them is a face, a name and a family that is suffering this weekend that for many in this state and this nation is a very prominent religious date,” Cuomo said in his daily press conference, in which he noted that “New Yorkers have done everything humanly possible” to try to save lives.

The governor compared the number of coronavirus deaths to that of 11S, the worst event experienced in New York in recent history, and noted that the disease has already killed more than three times as many people as that 2001 bombing in which 2,753 people died.
“Let’s put that in context. It’s 9,385 lives lost” to 2,753 11S deaths, which “supposedly had to be the worst tragedy of my life,” Cuomo said.
Bill de Blasio also called new York’s “hard and painful” this past week, but noted that daily intubations in the city’s hospitals have dropped to 70 since the 200 that were being recorded just a week ago.
“I’m so glad to be able to say that, just as we thought things were going to get worse, we’ve started to see improvements,” De Blasio said, while noting that it’s “important not to come to too many conclusions too quickly.”
Meanwhile, Phil Murphy, the governor of New Jersey, a state adjoining New York and home to many citizens working in the Big Apple, announced on Sunday that his state already has nearly 62,000 infections and 2,350 deaths, of which 167 lost their lives on Saturday.
Murphy, who said he was in constant contact with the White House, noted that at the moment the region, the second most affected in the U.S., still needs protective material for medical personnel as well as respirators.

In addition, new York and New Jersey, the other focuses of the epidemic in the United States are mainly concentrated in Michigan, where there are about 24,000 cases, Pennsylvania, with nearly 23,000, and Massachusetts and California, both with more than 22,000.
Meanwhile, the state Wyoming, in the western US, has recorded 261 cases and is the only one of the 50 in the country where no deaths from the virus have been reported.
The coronavirus has altered resurrection Sunday’s celebration in the country, where many state authorities have decreed restrictions on congregations, although in some states such as Texas, Kansas or Louisiana, regions where some of the most believing communities are concentrated, several parish priests have challenged the authorities with celebrations.

In New York, as in other cities, there has been a day of empty churches despite the important religious commemoration.
This void was especially noticeable in the iconic Catholic cathedral of Saint Patrick, on Fifth Avenue, which was attended only by its archbishop, Timothy Dolan, half a dozen assistants and technical staff for streaming the homily, through Catholic media and the local PIX11 chain.
The archbishop turned to the parishioners in their homes to say, “I miss you here in church, and I hear you tell me that you also miss me,” but one person I know very well said to me, “It’s not so bad to see the mass live by ‘streaming’, you can do it with a ‘bloody mary’ in your hand….’Come on mom “This is not the way to do it,”” he joked.
“With the pandemic the tables are empty of family and friends, schools are empty, factories, restaurants, banks (…) the churches are empty, the lives are empty, everything that filled us before now does not fill us,” sorry Archbishop Dolan, who nonetheless said that “the worst depression is a life without God, so this void we live can be blessed.”
Other Americans celebrated the day in their cars, as happened in walnutport, Pennsylvania, where hundreds of people flocked to resurrection Sunday Mass in their vehicles while the priest officiated the ceremony from a large stage.

Meanwhile, the governor of New York wanted to have a special gesture with the elders and went to the residence of The Elderly of Pathways, in the town of Niskayuna, in the northern part of the state.
From there he wanted to thank the generosity of this organization, despite assisting the most vulnerable population in the face of the virus, wanted to lend 35 respirators to hospitals in New York City, where much of the infections have been concentrated.
“We are going through a period of much pain and suffering, but when things are very bad, sometimes people show the best version of themselves,” he told the residence.

Original source in Spanish

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