Top medical expert has warned the United States government that deaths in the country due to coronavirus could reach 200,000 with millions of cases, as medical supplies would soon run short.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, in an interview to international news channel, said that coronavirus could cause between 100,000 and 200,000 deaths in United States.
Several cities of United States have warned that they would soon run out of medical facilities including ventilators.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has said, “The City will need hundreds of more ventilators in a few days and more masks, gowns and other supplies by April 5.
New Orleans Governor said, “The city will run out of ventilators around April 4 and officials in Louisiana still do not know whether they will receive any ventilators from the national stockpile.”
Louisiana has tried to order 12,000 ventilators from commercial vendors and has received 192, Governor John Bel Edwards said. “We haven’t yet been approved for ventilators out of the national stockpile,” he added.
Doctors are also especially concerned about a shortage of ventilators, breathing machines needed by many of those suffering from the pneumonia-like respiratory ailment.
According to US health officials, more than 122,000 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in US – the most in any country in world – and 2,100 people died.
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