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Aid workers report turning people away because they don’t have the PPE or oxygen needed to treat them, said Jens Laerke, spokesman for the U.N.
Yemen has reported 197 cases of coronavirus and 33 deaths from the disease, according to the Johns Hopkins dashboard.
into lockdown just one week earlier would have had a “dramatic†impact on the number of deaths caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, a leading mathematical modeler has declared.
Yates underlined a new analysis by climatologist James Annan that estimated that three-quarters of Britain’s fatalities — at least 27,000 deaths — would have been avoided with a lockdown imposed seven days earlier than March 23, when Prime Minister Boris Johnson finally opted to do so.
“In the early stages of the U.K.’s epidemic, when the case numbers were growing exponentially, it would not have been difficult to predict that earlier suppression would have had dramatic and beneficial consequences for the number of cases and deaths a short time down the line,†he said.
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and member of the Trump White House’s coronavirus task force, said people should go out and enjoy the outdoors over Memorial Day weekend, but to practice physical distancing.
His comments were welcomed by epidemiologist Julia Marcus, who said a sustainable, long-term approach is now needed in giving guidance to Americans, instead of the “all-or-nothing†approach in telling Americans to stay at home, HuffPost’s Lee Moran reported.
“I think that’s the approach we need moving forward, is to encourage people to be outdoors where we know the risk of transmission is much lower,†said Marcus.
Brazil is the only country to have recorded more than 1,000 deaths from coronavirus in a single day.
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