The Negative Impact of Delaying Decision to Fight Covid 19 in the USA

The pandemic Corona virus that began in Wuhan, China. During the winter of 2019 spread to the rest of the world.

The Chinese government immediately imposed strict rules and required people to stay at homes, shut down all industries, and prevented all inside and outside travels. It was a successful policy that ended  the spread of the virus.

There was 81,000 stricken people and 3,000 death cases.

The virus, however, was rapidly spread globally and specially in Europe causing a large number of people being infected by the virus which led to their death.

Italy was badly hit followed by Spain, France, Germany and the USA few months later.

 In April 12, 2020 it was reported that there was 1.7 million infected people and 108,000 deaths have occurred.

The Chinese were successful in controlling the spread of the virus, while the European and American have and are still paying a heavy price for their slow policy in dealing with this vicious Covid 19.

Two countries, Egypt and the USA are applying two different models fighting the virus.

The Egyptian government under the direction of President El Sessi applied the Chinese model to stop the spread of the Covid 19 virus. It was successful and the causalities were small compared to countries who did not apply the Chinese model.

As of April 14, 2020 the total number of deaths in Egypt was 426, and 1,939 were infected by the virus. Such number should be viewed in connection of two factors.

First, Egypt population is more than 100 million people.

Second, less than 10% of the land is livable the rest is baring desert. Hence, lead to a very high density of people living on this 10%.

The recent successful Egyptian approach to minimize the damages caused by Covid 19 was recognized by the head of the World Health Organization(WHO).

The USA has the highest number of casualties worldwide. The number of death cases was more than 21,489, as of April 12,2020, and that of those inflected 532,339. Unfortunately, the number continues to increase.

The factors that led to such horrendous result in the USA is President’s Trump policy failure during the first 70 days.  (MSNB.com)

in dealing with the spread of Covid 19.

1.     December 31, 2019, CDC learned of cluster case in Chine.

2.     January 3, 2020, China informed CDC of the outbreak. Azar then informed the White House.

3.     US spy Agencies warned the President of the danger of the virus spread.

The White House delaying action to combat the spread of the virus, led to the death of 21,480 and of 53,339 infected persons as of April 12, 2020.

Moreover, due to the failure of decent health care, more people are dying, and/or infected. There is shortage of hospital beds, medical equipment and of health care staff.

My sincere hope is that the government will succeed in taking care of the failing health system and be able to control this pandemic.