Top Medical Experts Call For Another Shutdown In The Usa

In the United States. We've surpassed another grim benchmark: more than 145 thousand people dead. Now, as America struggles to contain the pandemic.

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Dozens of the nation's top medical experts are calling on lawmakers to shut down the country again. The latest from the white house. "Dr. Seth Trueger, emergency medicine, North Western University endorsed letter calling for another shutdown: "It's not a question of doing it a second or third time. It's that we're going to be some measure of this for years if we don't do it right."

More than 150 prominent American Medical Experts, Scientists, Teachers, Nurses, and others banded together. Sending a letter to political leaders urging them to shut down the country and start over. Warning in the letter: "If you have done actions, the consequences will be measured in widespread suffering and death." 

      

Dr. Anthony Fauci, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease said "You don't necessarily have to go all the way back to a complete shutdown but you certainly have to call a pause and maybe even backing up a bit." 

    This, as states like Florida, continues to shatter records. Reporting more than twelve- thousand new cases and 135 deaths Friday.      

    Dr. Aileen Marty, infectious disease expert, Florida international university said "we're absolutely drowning here. It just an overwhelming amount of cases." 

   California also reported its highest number of deaths in a single day. In Starr County, Texas County it's a life and death situation. The county issuing a shelter-in-place order. 

     Saying "Our doctors are going to decide who receives treatment and who is sent home to die."

The head of the white house coronavirus task force Dr. Deborah Birx. Putting the situations in Florida, Texas, and California into context. Dr. Deborah Brix, white house coronavirus task force said "What we have right now are essentially three new yorks with these three major states." 

The USA has hit a new global record of reported coronavirus cases.  The world health organization reporting 285 thousand new cases in the last 24-hours.