Question

How the protests in the United States Changed the coronavirus pandemic?

Answer 1

Americans may want the virus to go away but it's not. Although the epidemic has eased in the Northeast, bringing down the national overall figures, cases have plateaued only in the rest of the world, and they appear to be on the increase in COVID Monitoring Project data in recent days. Twenty-two states reported 400 or more new cases and 14 other states, and triple-digit cases reported in Puerto Rico. Several states are now seeing their highest number of known cases, including Arizona, North Carolina, and California.

These numbers all reflect infections that probably started before protest week. An even bigger spike seems likely now. Put another way: If the country after this week does not see a substantial increase in new COVID-19 cases, it should prompt a rethink of what epidemiologists think about how the virus spreads.

But as the pandemic persists, more and more states are drawing back on the measures they had put in place to slow down the virus. Coronavirus Task Force of Trump administration is winding down its activities. Its testing czar returns to his day job at the Health and Human Services Department. The evidence say that the U.S. won't defeat the coronavirus as the long , dry summer of 2020 commences. Collectively, we seem to give up, slowly. It is a bitter and unmistakably American cruelty that the people who could suffer most also fight for justice in a way that almost certainly increases their risk of infection.

The demonstrations have contributed to extraordinarily agonizing contact between the public and health. They were not confronted with the stern admonition of remaining at home that accompanied earlier mass gatherings. Given Black Americans' long-standing health inequalities, hundreds of public health professionals signed a letter this week declining to oppose the protests as risky for COVID-19 transmission

The problems our response to the pandemic poses reflect the country's own problems. Our health care system is almost uniquely unsuitable for dealing with a national health crisis; pre-existing health inequalities, enshrined and deepened by decades of segregation, can not be eliminated overnight; state and local health departments are urgently in need of federal guidance that they have not received; the Senate has not considered a longer-lasting economic-rescue plan that would allow them to continue their work.