In the last 24 hours, second person has died in the US due to coronavirus while 89 people have contracted the infection.
Scientists report that the virus is now able to spread without getting detected, and it is a possibility that hundreds more are infected right now while their symptoms are yet to appear.
American hospitals are charging $3,000 just for a test, while the tests are free in every other country
On the other hand, USA has found itself completely ill-equipped to handle this crisis as compared to China and South Korea. While other countries have been providing free healthcare to their natives and travellers affected by coronavirus – the hospitals in USA are charging $3,000 per person.
Older people are 4000% more likely to succumb to the infection when compared to young people
Both the deaths have been reported in King County, Seattle in the state of Washington. First death was of a 50-year old person, and second person to die was 70-years old. So far, the data suggests that older individuals are more likely to die from coronavirus as compared to the younger people.
Scientists have discovered that coronavirus is now spreading without detenction
Surprisingly, the first person to die hadn’t been abroad anywhere, and it is deemed possible that they contracted the infection from someone who is a carrier of the virus.
Scientists took genetic samples of people diagnosed, people who are not yet diagnosed, and people who are completely healthy – and they found that some of their DNA has been modified in the same way. Giving rise to the idea that coronavirus has been spreading without being noticed since last 6 weeks.
The scientists say that this happened because the only focus till now was on the people who have travelled to China, when in reality they are not the only ones who are affected.
Coronavirus is spreading without detection and without control, most US states under seize
Many other states in US – like California, Nebraska, and Oregon and Rhode Island have been reporting cases. These people who have been infected recently are the ones who didn’t travel outside of US, neither did they come into contact with any infected person.
Till the time of writing this report, almost 90,000 people have been infected with the coronavirus, and 3,000 have died. Political experts and social scientists have been exclaiming that American healthcare system at this point will not be able to handle a viral outbreak if it got as big as it is in China.
Not only American health system is centered around extorting as much money as possible from the patients – it also is severely ill-equipped. Hospitals have been charging people $3,000 for just a coronavirus test, while the hospitals in California have only 200 test kits to examine more than 8,000 possible patients.
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