Original title: American expert: the "out of control" transmission rate of COVID-19 epidemic in the southern United States may be the highest in the world.
CNN reported on August 14 that Peter Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor Medical College (Baylor College of Medicine), said in an interview that the COVID-19 epidemic in the southern United States was "out of control", and the virus transmission rates in Florida and Louisiana may be the highest in the world.
As of the 13th, Florida reported 151415 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the week, the highest number in seven days since the outbreak, with the number of hospitalized cases between the ages of 30 and 39 reaching an all-time high.
Louisiana Governor Edwards Lifesciences Corp (John Bel Edwards) said that the state 13 COVID-19 hospitalization cases reached 2907, a record high. Due to the surge in patients, the state's health care system is overloaded, and health care workers are often unable to treat other non-COVID-19 patients. (CCTV reporter Xu Dezhi)