New York, hit hard by the coronavirus, is taking action to limit the spread of Covid-19. The mayor of the city, Bill de Blasio, thus urged the population to cover their faces outside, without advocating the wearing of masks, reserved for caregivers and emergency personnel.
- The Covid-19 epidemic is hitting the American metropolis hard
- The mayor of New York wants to reserve the priority of masks for caregivers but recommends protecting the face
With more than 100,000 reported cases and more than 2,300 deaths, New York is heavily affected by the coronavirus pandemic. To deal with this and try to curb the spread of Covid-19, the city’s mayor, Bill de Blasio, asked the population to cover their faces. “It could be a scarf, something you made at home, a bandana”announced Bill de Blasio in a press briefing this Thursday, April 2, but that “does not need to be a professional mask”which are reserved for nursing staff.
Change of strategy
This decision is justified on the basis of a study which evokes a possible transmission of the virus by breathing. Published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the national health authority in the United States, it highlights cases of transmission of the virus in Singapore by asymptomatic people. “It has been shown that speech and other vocal activities, such as singing, can generate particles in the air, with a propensity related to sound level”detail the authors of the study, published on Wednesday.
This new approach contrasts with the attitude of the American authorities who did not consider it necessary to wear a mask, unless you had symptoms of the coronavirus, on the basis of the recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the CDC. . At the national level, this measure was not followed by Donald Trump who said he left the choice to Americans to decide whether or not to cover their faces. However, Vice President Mike Pence indicated, in a press briefing on Thursday April 2, that the CDC would issue an opinion on face coverings in the coming days.
Nurses denounce a lack of equipment
Also in New York, nurses denounce the lack of equipment. In front of a Montefiore university hospital, in the Bronx district, at a distance from each other, masked and with a black ribbon on their arm in solidarity with all the sick, around thirty nurses organized a demonstration to denounce the lack of masks, gowns and other protective equipment that endangers them and their patients. “Soldiers don’t go to war unarmed, why would medics work without protective gear?”they denounced.
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