Health News US could face 200000 coronavirus deaths, millions of cases, Fauci warns – msnNOW By admin Posted on March 30, 2020 25 min read 0 0 95 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Reddit Share on Pinterest Share on Linkedin Share on Tumblr The world is battling the COVID-19 outbreak, which the World Health Organization has declared a global pandemic. (Pictured) A grocery store worker is protected by a shield at a Vons store on March 29 in Solana Beach, California. A new makeshift morgue is set outside Lenox Health Medical Pavilion on March 29 in New York City. An empty Lexington Avenue is seen in New York City. People walk around an almost empty Grand Central Terminal on March 29. People walk on the beach next to State Route 1 amid an outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19), along the Pacific coastline outside of Big Sur, on March 29 in California. Empty shelving of toilet paper and paper towels is shown at a Target store on March 29 in Encinitas, California. A mural that reads “state of emergency” with a dollar-sign is pictured in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood as efforts continue to help slow the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak on March 29 in Seattle, Washington. A woman is seen during check-in at Miami International Airport on March 29 in Miami. Javits Convention Center that has been converted to hospital due to Covid-19 pandemic is seen in New York City on March 29. President Donald Trump speaks during a coronavirus task force briefing in the Rose Garden of the White House, on March 29, in Washington. Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci speaks during a Coronavirus Task Force press briefing in the Rose Garden of the White House, on March 29. Engineers at Rice University Thomas Herring, left, Danny Blacker, center, and Fernando Cruz, right, work to create a low cost ventilator that they designed and which they hope can be used to treat coronavirus disease patients in Houston, on March 29. A Samaritan’s Purse crew works on building a 68-bed emergency field hospital specially equipped with a respiratory unit in New York’s Central Park across from The Mount Sinai Hospital, on March 29. People exercise at the closed Carmel High School field amid an outbreak of the coronavirus, in California, on March 29. Signs in support of healthcare workers are posted outside of Mercy Hospital on March 29, in Miami. Surrounded by his family, Trent Allen, top, pastor at Calvary Chapel Jackson, speaks into a laptop as he conducts a live stream church service from his living room on March 29, in Brandon, Miss. Rev. Peter Gower waves to worshipers as they leave the parking lot where they listened over their radios to Mass he held from the front door of Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church on March 29 in Johnston, R.I. People inside their cars watch a movie at a drive-in theater while keeping social distancing on March 28, in Fort Lauderdale. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio helps load some of the 250,000 face masks donated to city health workers by The United Nations to help with the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak at the United Nations Headquarters on March 28 in New York City. A sign reminding people to wash their hands is seen at the bathrooms of a rest area of the Rhode Island Welcome Center, where Rhode Island State Troopers and National Guard Officers installed a checkpoint, amid restrictions on travel due to (COVID-19) outbreak, in Richmond, Rhode Island, March 28. A nurse demonstrates outside the emergency entrance at Jacobi Medical Center on March 28 in New York, demanding more personal protective equipment for medical staff. Medical personnel wait to screen people arriving at the testing site in Boston, on March 28. The drive-thru testing site is only open to qualified first responders who meet the state criteria for testing. President Donald Trump waves as the Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort pulls away from the pier at Naval Station Norfolk, on March 28. The ship is departing for New York to assist hospitals to fight the pandemic. A sign posted in front of the emergency entrance of Harborview Medical Center gives thanks to health care workers, on March 28, in Seattle. President Donald Trump gives a pen to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) during a bill signing ceremony for H.R. 748, the CARES Act in the Oval Office of the White House on March 27, in Washington, DC. Staff of Odyssey House Louisiana (OHL), which runs a drive-through testing site for the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, work at the site in New Orleans, Louisiana, on March 27. An empty street is seen near the Oculus during the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19), on March 27, in Brooklyn, New York City. Sitting is discouraged by removing the seats from the stools due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in Los Angeles, on March 27. James Scott, Macy Sturdivant, Annabelle Furlong and Serafina Furlong spend time together while practicing social distancing during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak on March 27, in Seattle. Signs tell visitors to the Farmers Market of the new rules due to coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in Los Angeles, on March 27. Soldiers of the U.S. Army’s 627th Hospital Center, Fort Carson board an aircraft bound for duty in Washington State in response to coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak relief efforts on March 27, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (C) and Representatives Kevin McCarthy (L) and Steny Hoyer show the bill to the press after the House passed a $2 trillion stimulus bill, on March 27 at the US Capitol in Washington, D.C. People leave a food distribution center in Boston on March 27. The USNS Mercy enters the Port of Los Angeles on March 27. The The 1,000-bed Navy hospital ship is expected to help take the load off Los Angeles area hospitals as they treat coronavirus patients. A sign with corrected spelling, tells visitors the playground at the Community Park is closed until further notice due to COVID-19 on March 27 in Zelienople, Pennsylvania. A sign displays a message outside the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center which is being partially converted into a temporary hospital in Manhattan on March 26. Juliette rings a “closing bell” as NYSE-AMEX floor traders work in an off-site trading office they built when the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) closed, in Brooklyn on March 26. Dax Davis plays during a daycare for children of healthcare workers and first responders at Midway Elementary School, with regular hand washing breaks in the schedule on March 26 in Des Moines. A warning sign at Whitehall Terminal warns ferry riders to practice social distancing while commuting in Manhattan on March 26. Oriole Park at Camden Yards is closed on what would’ve been Opening Day on March 26 in Baltimore. The Orioles were slated to host the New York Yankees at the park, but the season has been delayed due to the coronavirus outbreak. Super Shoes in Manchester, New Hampshire is closed as a result of the COVID-19 crisis on March 26. The statue of Hall of Fame pitcher Walter Johnson is shown outside Nationals Park, home to the World Series Champion Washington Nationals, which looks deserted on the date which was previously scheduled for Opening Day, on March 26, in Washington, DC. Pine Glen Elementary School teachers wave to their students as they take part in a car parade through their school district, in Burlington, Massachusetts, on March 26. The New York Public Library is closed due to the spread of the coronavirus on March 26 in New York City. The Holland America cruise ship Maasdam pulls into San Diego Bay enroute to docking at B Street Pier on March 26 in San Diego, California. The Maasdam was denied permission to dock and disembark in Hawaii due to fears passengers may have the coronavirus forcing it to continue on to San Diego in order to allow passengers to get off. An Iowa Department of Transportation digital sign displays a message over a highway in response to the spread of COVID-19 on March 26 in Des Moines, Iowa. Jaime Casady uses an electrostatic sprayer to disinfect a shop in Seattle, Washington on March 26. People stand in line to get tested for the coronavirus at Elmhurst Hospital Center in the Queens borough of New York City, on March 26. In this image from video, the final vote of 96-0 shows passage of the $2.2 trillion economic rescue package in response to the pandemic, passed by the Senate at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, on March 25. A police officer mans the entrance to a coronavirus testing center in Hansen Dam Park on March 25 in Pacoima, California. 50/50 SLIDES Slideshow by photo services Load Error * U.S. cases top 141,000, over 2,400 deaths * Fauci softens dire predictions * NYC, New Orleans, Michigan short on medical equipment * “Feels very apocalyptic,” New York resident says * (Updates with Trump extending guidelines, quotes) By Doina Chiacu and Dan Whitcomb WASHINGTON/ LOS ANGELES, March 29 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Sunday extended his stay-at-home guidelines until the end of April, dropping a hotly criticized plan to get the economy up and running by mid-April after a top medical adviser said more than 100,000 Americans could die from the coronavirus outbreak. Bing COVID-19 tracker: Latest numbers by country and state The reversal by Trump, which he said would be disclosed in greater detail on Tuesday, came as the U.S. death toll topped 2,460 from the respiratory disease, according to a Reuters tally, with more than 141,000 cases, the most of any country in the world. (Graphic: https://tmsnrt.rs/2w7hX9T) “The peak, the highest point of death rate, is likely to hit in two weeks,” Trump told a coronavirus briefing in the White House Rose Garden, flanked by top advisers and business leaders, “Nothing would be worse than declaring victory before the victory is won.” He told Americans: “The better you do, the faster this whole nightmare will end.” Earlier on Sunday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told CNN that the pandemic could ultimately kill between 100,000 and 200,000 people in the United States if mitigation was not successful. Since 2010, the flu has killed between 12,000 and 61,000 Americans a year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The 1918-1919 flu pandemic killed 675,000 in the United States, according to the CDC https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-commemoration/pandemic-preparedness.htm. Fauci softened his dire predictions at the Rose Garden briefing, saying they were based on models that were run to show the worst-case scenario if Americans did not follow stay-at-home directives. “We feel the mitigation we are doing right now is having an effect,” Fauci said. “The decision to extend this mitigation process until the end of April is a wise and prudent decision.” Trump’s surprise suggestion that he might order the reopening of the economy by Easter had been greeted with sharp and immediate criticism from state governors still grappling with rising numbers of patients and health systems stretched thin. The governors of at least 21 states, representing more than half the U.S. population of 330 million, have closed “non-essential businesses” and told residents to stay home. Asked during the briefing if floating the idea of lifting restrictions by mid-April had been a mistake, Trump called it “just an aspiration” and said he now believed the country could be on its way to economic recovery by June 1. ‘WE ARE SCARED’ New York state on Sunday reported nearly 60,000 cases and a total of 965 deaths, up 237 in the past 24 hours. The number of hospitalized patients was slowing, said Governor Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat who has been outspoken in his criticism of the Republican president. New York City will need hundreds more ventilators in a few days and more masks, gowns and other supplies by April 5, Mayor Bill de Blasio told CNN. New Orleans will run out of ventilators around Saturday, Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards told CBS. Ventilators are breathing machines used to treat those suffering the most severe symptoms from the pneumonia-like respiratory ailment and many hospitals fear they will not have enough. Dr. Arabia Mollette, an emergency medicine physician at Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center in Brooklyn and St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx, said she now worked in a “medical war zone.” “We’re trying to keep our heads above water without drowning,” Mollette said. “We are scared. We’re trying to fight for everyone else’s life, but we also fight for our lives as well.” Maryland arrested a man who repeatedly violated the ban on large gatherings by hosting a bonfire party with 60 guests, Governor Larry Hogan said on Sunday. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, whose state has become one of the fastest-growing areas for the coronavirus, especially in the county that includes Detroit, called the rapid spread “gut-wrenching.” “We have nurses wearing the same mask from the beginning of their shift until the end, masks that are supposed to be for one patient at one point in your shift. We need some assistance and we’re going to need thousands of ventilators,” Whitmer told CNN. The strict stay-at-home rules meant that usually bustling New York, like many major cities in the United States, was largely quiet on Sunday except for the sound of ambulance sirens. “It feels very apocalyptic,” said Quentin Hill, a 27-year-old New Yorker who works for a Jewish nonprofit. “It almost feels like we’re in wartime.” Jason Brown, who was laid off from his job in digital media due to the pandemic, said Fauci’s estimate was scary. “I feel like it’s just growing, growing, growing,” said Brown, who is 27 and lives in Los Angeles, one of the epicenters of the outbreak. “There’s no vaccine. It seems like a lot of people don’t take it seriously in the U.S., so it makes me believe that this would become more drastic and drastic,” Brown said. (Reporting by Sarah N. 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