A senior scientist and the director of the US public health agency has warned that the US faces ‘impending doom’ as coronavirus cases and hospital admissions continue to rise across the country.
US President Joe Biden had on Monday urged state politicians once again to make mask-wearing obligatory in public places while also promising that by mid-April, he expects that at least 90% of American adults would have been vaccinated.
The US has recorded around 60,000 new cases daily for the past week.
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The director of the US public health agency, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), was speaking at a White House briefing when she said she was going to go ‘off-script‘.
‘I’m going to reflect on the reoccurring feeling I have of impending doom,‘ Dr Rochelle Walensky said, adding ‘we have so much reason for hope, but right now I’m scared‘.
Cases have risen particularly quickly in Michigan and the country’s north-east, including Connecticut and New York.
