The U.S. will soon find out whether it's likely to be the next South Korea or Italy or even China when it comes to the new coronavirus crisis.
"When you're on an exponential curve every moment is dangerous," said Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, in an interview. "This is a particularly critical moment for us to try to bring all the resources and determination of government and the American people to try to get off of it."
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's worst-case-scenario is that about 160 million to 210 million Americans will be infected by December. Under this forecast, 21 million people would need hospitalization and 200,000 to 1.7 million could die by the end of the year. In the U.S., 115 people have died amid more than 7,300 confirmed cases as of Wednesday, according to Johns Hopkins University's data dashboard.
Yet after authorities embarked on one of the largest mass mobilization efforts in history, closing all schools, forcing millions of people inside, quickly building more than a dozen vast, temporary hospitals and meticulously testing and tracing anyone who may have encountered the virus, Beijing has appeared to all but eradicate new cases.
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