Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus task force coordinator has shockingly revealed that the United States is now facing a new phase of coronavirus pandemic. According to Birx, the deadly pandemic that is currently creating chaos is more widespread than when it first hit the country earlier next year.
“What we are seeing today is different from March and April. It is extraordinarily widespread. It’s into the rural as equal urban areas,” said Birx.
Birx also urged everyone in the United States to wear masks and maintain effective social distancing to stay away from getting contracted with the virus. The health expert warned people who live in rural areas, as they may not be immune to the virus.
“To everybody who lives in a rural area, you are not immune or protected from this virus. If you’re in multi-generational households, and there’s an outbreak in your rural area or in your city, you need to really consider wearing a mask at home, assuming that you’re positive if you have individuals in your households with comorbidities,” added Birx while interacting with CNN.
A few weeks back, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute and professor of health policy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health had also shared similar views, and he had claimed that the real chaos associated with the coronavirus pandemic is yet to unfold. Jha also added that coronavirus cases in the country will surge drastically when the pandemic starts affecting people in rural areas.
“The nature of this pandemic is that it starts and kind of accelerates in big cities, but then it moves out into the suburbs and into the rural areas. So, by the time we’re done with this, I think every American will have felt it much more up close and personal,” Jha told NPR.
Even after eight months of the outbreak, the novel coronavirus is still gripping the United States with its deadly clutches. The latest statistics from the Johns Hopkins University suggest that the pandemic has claimed the lives of 1,58,000 people in the United States alone, and the number of coronavirus positive cases has crossed 4.8 million.
