Though new infections and hospitalizations are slowing after a midwinter peak, the country has a long way to go to end the pandemic. deaths, is that the toll is still rising. Perhaps the most heartbreaking fact about reaching half a million U.S. The politicization of public health messaging, on topics such as masking and the severity of the disease in comparison with flu, also confused and endangered the public, Bicette says. We have not equipped workers who must go to work with adequate personal protective equipment." We have not ensured that workplaces for those who really have to go to work are safe. "We have not paid people to make it feasible for most people to safely shelter in place. "If we had put the public health measures in place for the past year, we wouldn't be in this position," says Jones. She and other experts cite the shortages of personal protective equipment, testing supplies and contact tracing capacity as some of the missing pieces that could have saved lives. Richina Bicette, an emergency medical physician and associate medical director at the Baylor College of Medicine. "From the very beginning, we had the luxury of time," says Dr. far exceeds that of other countries - a fact that health experts attribute to the scattered, patchwork pandemic response from the Trump administration.
"There's much that could be learned, much that would be added if we were to honor people's lives and to invest in people's lives," she adds. It's those kinds of blinders that sap the strength of the whole society." "We cannot think these people are disposable and dispensable and that we can just get along very well without them.
Camara Phyllis Jones, an epidemiologist and past president of the American Public Health Association. "The massive number and the loss of those people from our society has not been acknowledged," says Dr. Now, around 2,000 people die from the disease every day on average, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, down from a high of over 3,000 a day on average in mid-January. The disease soon began to ravage nursing homes and the five boroughs of New York City, frequently striking those left most vulnerable because of age, poor health, job requirements or crowded living conditions. Losing half a million lives to this disease was unimaginable when the first few people died of COVID-19 in the U.S last February. Death Toll Nears Half A Million, Biden Plans To Order Flags To Half Staff
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