“Every report describes this as a tsunami. We have no immunity to Covid-19, people who get it don’t know it for a while, and each person that gets it, they infect 2+ people,” he wrote alongside a “lag tracker” graph showing the existing and predicted escalation rate of coronavirus in countries including the US, and photographs from hospitals in Italy. “They are highly dependent on the public response so I will start there. “By 23 March many of our largest cities and hospitals are on course to be overrun with cases,” Slavitt wrote, adding that he was preparing an advisory memo for state and local officials around the US to whom he had been speaking. Slavitt’s renewed warning on Saturday came as Trump appeared at the White House to outline the latest steps his administration was taking to try to contain coronavirus, including extending a European travel ban to the UK and Ireland and allocating $50bn in federal funding freed up on Friday by the declaration of a national emergency. What does that mean: nasal swabs, respirators, ventilators, RNA kits to read tests, machines, gloves…” The public health infrastructure could have been prepared. “That wasn’t all, but it led to other fatal mistakes. “The original sin is Trump’s months-long denial and his dismantling of public health and response infrastructure,” Slavitt said. Tweets by Slavitt on Friday highlighted some experts’ expectations that more than 1 million could die in the US from coronavirus, and that early inaction by the Trump administration had fueled “a major preventable public health disaster”. All the bars and restaurants are closed now across Europe.” Slavitt (born 1966) is an American businessman and healthcare advisor who served as the acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services from March 2015 to January 2017 and as a temporary Senior Advisor to the COVID-19 Response Coordinator in the Biden administration. “Expanding medical capacity has to be done but will only make a tiny difference if we don’t self-isolate,” Slavitt said.
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The only way for the US to avoid such an explosion, Slavitt said in a series of tweets on Saturday, was for the entire population to follow a strict policy of social isolation and hospitals to reorganise and prioritise resources to fight the outbreak.
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