COVID-19的当前状态流行病美国最高传染病专家安东尼·福西博士周一在新病例和住院人数惊人增加的情况下说，美国的情况“真的不好”。
他的评论与总统的截然不同唐纳德·特朗普世卫组织试图淡化各州州长和市长在重开疫情后努力控制疫情的危险，总统称疫情为“余烬”。
福西说，美国目前的疫情正在恶化，部分原因是，与欧洲不同，美国各州和城市在全国病例数量大幅下降之前就开始重新开放。
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在南部和西部的几个州，最近几周检测呈阳性的人数激增。
2020年7月3日，佛罗里达州迈阿密海滩南海滩附近，一名妇女骑着自行车经过海洋大道上的行人克里夫·霍金斯/盖蒂图像公司
州长加文·纽瑟姆周一说，加州的阳性率已经达到6.8%，亚利桑那州已经达到100，000例，人们越来越担心该州缺乏重症监护室床位。
10个州的新COVID病例数创下历史新高，周末有19例，目前住院人数创下9例纽约时报和COVID跟踪项目。
“目前的状况确实不好，也就是说，正如你所知道的，我们的情况是平均每天大约有20，000个新病例。然后，一系列与各州和各城市试图恢复某种形式的正常开放相关的情况导致了我们现在有破纪录的案例。两天前是57，500。所以在一周半的时间内。我们的病例数量几乎翻了一倍，”他在美国国家卫生研究院院长弗朗西斯·柯林斯的现场直播中说道。
“我们仍深陷于第一波危机之中。我想说这不会被认为是一个浪潮。弗朗西斯，这是一次感染的激增，或者说是一次感染的重新抬头，但它从未真正深入到我们想要去的地方。如果你看看欧洲的图表。欧洲，欧盟作为一个整体，它上升，然后下降到基线。正如你所料，现在他们有一些小波动，当他们试图重新开放时，我们上升了，从来没有下降到基线，现在我们又重新上升了，”他说。
“所以，这是一个严重的情况，我们必须立即解决，”福西警告说。
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福西说，不管你在哪里，美国人都应该继续戴着面具，远离人群。关于新病例的平均年龄，Fauci说，更多的新病例发生在年轻人身上，部分原因是他们厌倦了呆在家里，正在重返社交活动、餐馆和酒吧，但他们也不能幸免。
“年轻人不应该觉得他们不会受到严重后果的伤害，”他说，并补充说，即使年轻人没有感染症状，也不意味着这不是问题。
2020年7月4日，在冠状病毒流行期间，海滩游客沿着加州圣地亚哥的太平洋海滩区的木板路散步和骑车。桑迪·赫芬克/法新社
“通过被感染，他们传播了疾病的爆发，因为不经意地或无辜地，他们可以感染某人，谁会感染某人，然后突然某人的祖母或祖父，或正在接受乳腺癌化疗的阿姨被感染。所以，尽管你认为自己被隔离在真空中，但你不是，你是流行病传播的一部分，所以你对自己和社会都有责任避免感染。这就是我要传达的信息，我知道很难与年轻人沟通，但他们真的需要理解这一点。”
关于当前爆发的紧张局势，福西说，美国人不应该看着公众健康努力和重新开放经济是相互矛盾的，但是应该平衡所有的参数，以保护公共健康作为重新开放的方式。
“我希望他们能够理解，不要把公共卫生努力与经济开放相提并论，就好像他们是对立的力量，”他说。“他们不是。我们应该将公共卫生努力作为一种手段和途径，以实现安全重新开放，这不是一个障碍。这是实现这一目标的途径。所以我们必须确保我们不创造这种二元类型的东西，这是我们反对他们，不是。我们都在一起，”他说。
Situation 'really not good' as new COVID-19 cases break records: Fauci
The current state of the COVID-19pandemicin the U.S. is "really not good," Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country's top infectious disease expert, said Monday amid an alarming rise in new cases and hospitalizations.
His comments were in stark contrast with those of PresidentDonald Trump, who has sought to play down the danger in states where governors and mayors are struggling to control outbreaks after reopening -- outbreaks the president has called "embers."
Fauci said the current state of the pandemic in the U.S. is worsening in part because, unlike Europe, states and cities in the U.S. moved to reopen before the country sufficiently lowered the number of cases.
Several states in the south and west have seen surges in the number of people testing positive in recent weeks.
The positivity rate in California has reached 6.8%, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday, and Arizona has reached 100,000 cases with concerns rising about a lack of available ICU beds in the state.
10 states hit a record high number of new COVID-19 cases over the weekend and 9 hit record numbers of current hospitalizations, according to state data compiled byThe New York TimesandThe COVID Tracking Project.
"The current state is really not good, in the sense that, as you know, we had been in a situation we were averaging about 20,000 new cases, a day. And then a series of circumstances associated with various states and cities trying to open up in the sense of getting back to some form of normality has led to a situation where we now have record breaking cases. Two days ago it was at 57,500. So within a period of a week and a half. We've almost doubled the number of cases," he said in a livestream with NIH Director Francis Collins.
"We are still knee deep in the first wave of this. And I would say this would not be considered a wave. It was a surge, or resurgence of infections superimposed upon a baseline, Francis, that really never got down to where we wanted to go. If you look at the graphs from Europe. Europe, the European Union as an entity, it went up, and then came down to baseline. Now they're having little blips, as you might expect, as they try to reopen, we went up, never came down to baseline, and now we're surging back up," he said.
"So, it's a serious situation that we have to address immediately," Fauci warned.
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Fauci said regardless of where you are Americans should continue to wear masks inside and outside, social distance, and avoid crowds. On the younger average age of new cases, Fauci said more of the new cases are in younger people, in part because they are sick of being at home and are returning to social activities, restaurants, and bars, but that they are not immune.
"Young people should not feel that they're invulnerable to serious consequences," he said, adding that even if young people get infected with no symptoms that doesn't mean it isn't a problem.
"By getting infected they are propagating the outbreak, because inadvertently or innocently, they could infect someone, who'd infect someone, and then all of a sudden someone's grandmother or grandfather, or aunt who's getting chemotherapy for breast cancer gets infected. So although you think you're isolated in a vacuum you're not, you're part of the propagation of the pandemic so it's your responsibility to yourself, as well as to society, to avoid infection. That's the message, I know it's difficult to get out to young people, but they really need to understand that."
On the tension around the current outbreaks, Fauci said Americans should not look at publichealthefforts and reopening the economy as at odds with each other but there should be a balance of all the parameters to use protecting public health as a way to reopen.
"I hope they appreciate it, that rather than looking at the public health effort, versus economic opening, as if they were opposing forces," he said. "They're not. We should use the public health effort as a vehicle and a pathway to get to safe reopening, it's not an obstacle. It's a pathway to do that. So we've got to make sure that we don't create this binary type thing it's us against them, it's not. We're all in it together," he said.
