The cumulative number of deaths from the new crown

The cumulative number of deaths from the new crown exceeds 700,000, and the failure of the American-style anti-epidemic highlights its "difficulty in governance"

According to data from Johns Hopkins University in the United States, as of 17:21 on October 2, EST (5:21 on October 3, Beijing time), the cumulative number of confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in the United States has reached 43,649,970, with a cumulative death of 700,793 example. Compared with 24 hours ago, there were 101,338 new confirmed cases and 1,146 new deaths.

The cumulative number of deaths from the new crown in the United States has exceeded 700,000, and the US media said that this number exceeds the number of people who died in the United States from the 1918 pandemic. Facts have once again proved that the United States is definitely the "world's first country that failed to fight the epidemic."

The US media compares the death toll of the new crown with the pandemic a hundred years ago, which itself has a heavy and cruel taste.

The failure of the American-style anti-epidemic highlights the "disaster of life" in the United States.

According to statistics, the pandemic killed 675,000 Americans, when the U.S. population was only one-third of what it is today. In terms of lethality, the flu might be said to be deadlier, but the medical conditions at the time were nothing compared to today. Today, in the face of the new crown epidemic, the United States, the richest, most developed, most advanced medical technology, most abundant medical resources in the world, and hoarding several times the dose of the new crown vaccine required by its own population, has watched 700,000 fresh lives pass away. Incredible.

The failure of the American-style anti-epidemic also highlights the "scientific pain" in the United States.

Epidemic prevention science has lost out to partisan politics, and the largely avoidable tragedy continues. Early detection, early isolation, and early diagnosis and treatment can cut off the chain of infection and control the spread of the epidemic in a timely manner. In the political game of "opposition for opposition's sake" between the two parties in the United States, the election situation is greater than the epidemic situation, and the political calculation is higher than the need for epidemic prevention. Since the outbreak of the epidemic, the two parties and their supporters are still arguing and arguing over the most basic prevention and control measures, such as whether to wear masks and vaccinate.

The failure of the American-style anti-epidemic has further highlighted the "difficulty in governance" of the United States, and the "United States" cannot govern the "separatist country."

Under the U.S. federal system, public health affairs such as the new crown epidemic are mainly managed by state and local governments. Against the background of extreme party opposition, highly polarized politics, and severe social divisions, the politics of checks and balances in the United States has been alienated into "veto politics". This kind of "bulk" decentralization system makes the federal, state and local governments manage their own affairs, restrain each other, criticize each other, and shift responsibilities. It is not easy to integrate resources, and it is more difficult to coordinate responses, and it is difficult to form a unified national anti-epidemic plan.

At present, the fourth wave of the epidemic in the United States driven by the delta strain of the new coronavirus is still raging, and the shocking number of 700,000 may not be the end. Public health experts worry that as winter approaches, there will be a new wave of epidemic peaks in the United States.