Mayor Lori Lightfoot declined to forecast on Sunday when the COVID-19 lockdown will result in Chicago, announcing the town must make extra growth. Lightfoot, showing on “Face the Nation,” made her feedback after Dr. Anthony Fauci stated there can be a rolling opening of the financial system in May.
“We cannot open up the economy until we make sure that we got all the health care controls in place,” Lightfoot stated when requested concerning the prediction made through Fauci, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director.
“That means widespread testing, contact tracing, and we got to see not just a flattening of the curve but a bending down. We are trending in the right direction here in Chicago,” Lightfoot stated.
“We started out seeing that cases were doubling every one to two days, then every three to four. We’re now on a trend of nine to 10, but we’ve got to see a lot more progress on the health care front before we can even start talking about a reopening the economy,” she stated.
The coronavirus outbreak has devastated the U.S. financial system with stay-at-home orders issued through governors in maximum states, throwing thousands and thousands out of labor and dangerous the survival of many companies.
On CNN’s “State of the Union,” Fauci was once requested through host Jake Tapper when the U.S. can get started reopening.
“I think it could probably start, at least in some ways, maybe next month,” Fauci stated. “And, once more, Jake, it’s so tricky to make the ones sorts of predictions, as a result of they at all times get thrown again at you if it doesn’t occur, now not through you, however you recognize through any of plenty of folks.
“We are hoping that, on the finish of the month, shall we go searching and say, ‘OK, is there any element here that we can safely and cautiously start pulling back on?’ If so, do it. If now not, then simply proceed to hunker down. And that’s what, a minimum of for me viewpoint of the general public well being side, that we take a look at. Other choices are going to must be made on the stage of the president and the governors about what they will do with the entire knowledge they get.
“The only thing I and my colleagues in public health and medicine can do is to give a projection of the kinds of things that may or may not happen when you make these steps,” he stated.
Reopening: Not like flipping a mild transfer
President Donald Trump stated final week, “Hopefully we’re going to be opening up — you can call it “opening” very, very — very, very quickly, I’m hoping.”
Gov. J.B. Pritzker, when requested at his Saturday briefing a couple of timetable, declined to make a prediction, announcing he’s going to be guided through the knowledge, recommendation through epidemiologists and consultations with different governors dealing with the similar reopening resolution.
Fauci stated on CNN, “It is not going to be a light switch that we say, ‘OK, it is now June, July or whatever, click, the light switch goes back on.’ It’s going to be depending where you are in the country, the nature of the outbreak that you have already experienced and the threat of an outbreak that you may not have experienced. So, it’s going to — having to look at the situation in different parts of the country.”
Lightfoot on African-American deaths in Chicago
A countrywide dialogue of COVID-19 racial inequality, jumpstarted after Chicago published knowledge appearing that as of per week in the past, 70% of the 86 Chicagoans who died had been African American – in a town this is about 30% black. Last Monday, Lightfoot issued a “public health red alarm” to deal with the racial disparity.
Lightfoot stated on “Face the Nation” the location is “not unique to Chicago, unfortunately. We’re seeing similar kinds of numbers reported across the country in large urban centers.”
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