如同冠状病毒病例继续在美国的广大地区激增公开辩论面罩要求和再次手术是点蚀一些州和联邦领导人反对白宫，美国人经常收到混杂的信息。
在美国广播公司的“本周”节目中，来自阿肯色州、科罗拉多州和佛罗里达州这三个受影响的州的领导人讨论了最近的高峰和他们感受到的努力是防止进一步扩散所必需的。
佛罗里达州民主党众议员唐娜·沙拉拉(Donna Shalala)周日表示:“这里的居民很害怕，我职业生涯中第一次感到害怕，因为这里缺乏领导力。”“我们只是没有得到我们的手臂。”
前克林顿政府卫生与公众服务部部长沙拉拉告诉《本周》联合主持人玛莎·拉德兹，考虑到她所在的迈阿密国会选区的病毒数量，尽管唐纳德·特朗普总统强烈反对，下个月重开学校的讨论是“荒谬的”。她补充说，她认为该地区的经济活动应该再次受到限制。
沙拉拉说:“我们真正需要做的是，我们需要再次关闭。”“我四个月前说过，如果我们做得不对，我们将不得不再次关闭。这是我们最可怕的噩梦，我们将不得不在佛罗里达州这样做。”
尽管案件数量激增——仅在过去一周就超过8万起——佛罗里达州州长罗恩·德桑蒂斯(Ron DeSantis)表示，该州不会像其他州那样“回到”重新开放的计划上来，声称“人们去做生意并不是导致(案件激增)的原因。”周日，包括特朗普在内的共和党人声称，像沙拉这样的关闭声明是出于政治动机。
特朗普在“福克斯周日新闻”(Fox News Sunday)上表示:“民主党希望尽可能长时间地关闭经济，因为他们认为这有利于选举。”
截至周六，美国已诊断出360万名艾滋病患者，近14万人死于艾滋病冠状病毒，根据数据由约翰·霍普金斯大学收集。在过去的一周，包括阿肯色州和佛罗里达州在内的19个州创下了单日阳性病例数的记录，全国死亡人数飙升了19%。
在拉达茨的追问下，关于已经陷入困境的企业如何应对再次关门，这位国会女议员指出南佛罗里达的经济依赖于旅游业和“人群”，并对这一困境采取了长期立场。
她说:“我们的经济不会回来，直到我们遇到这种病毒的头部，并击倒它。”“如果我们不保护我们社区人民的生命，我们就无法保护经济。”
2020年7月13日，人们走过佛罗里达州迈阿密海滩的克里弗兰德南海滩酒店。由于对迈阿密戴德县的Covid-19大流行越来越担心，酒店宣布再次关闭，直至另行通知。
在阿肯色州和科罗拉多州，政府。共和党人阿萨·哈钦森和民主党人贾里德·波利斯分别宣布了全州范围内的口罩授权，以应对不断上升的病例数，并在周日的“本周”上同意这一要求是必要的，尽管他们不想侵犯选民的自由。
数据显示了面部覆盖物的功效美国广播公司新闻/华盛顿邮报民意调查Raddatz向Hutchinson展示了三分之二的共和党人在其他人在场的情况下戴口罩的情况，他问Hutchinson，为什么总统反对一项全国性的命令，并且不同意疾病控制和预防中心主任罗伯特·雷德菲尔德博士的说法，即戴通用口罩可以在几周内“控制”疫情。
"这对像你这样希望人们戴口罩的州长有什么帮助?"拉达兹问道。
“嗯，我不支持国家面具任务。哈钦森说:“我认为各州正在着手解决这个问题。”他还补充说，总统戴口罩“很重要”——他只在公开场合做过一次。“我们需要戴面具。我们的国家领导层需要树立这样的榜样。”
他补充说:“(口罩的命令)不是我想做的事情，但它是每个人都可以做的事情，以减轻我们的医院的压力，给我们一个希望，以降低这些案件，所以我们已经采取了必要的步骤。”“如果我们不得不施加额外的限制，我们会的。”
Polis承认担心“告诉人们在生活中该穿什么或做什么”，但他说，科罗拉多州的数据显示，该州要求戴口罩的地区“口罩使用率增加了15%至20%，病毒的传播也降低了”，这使得在全州范围内订购口罩成为一个“简单的决定。”
在美国广播公司新闻/华盛顿邮报民意调查96%的民主党人回答说他们在别人面前戴着面具，与共和党人相比有30个百分点的差异，这引发了关于这个问题政治化的问题。两位州长周日都强调，正如哈钦森所说，“这不应该是政治问题。”
波利斯说:“我认为，重要的是让人们知道，这不是意识形态，这不是党派，这是基于科学的。”“面具是通往更多自由的门票。它减少了企业倒闭的可能性，减少了人员死亡的可能性，增加了学生返校的可能性。”
他继续说:“民主党人，共和党人，无党派人士，绿党人，自由意志论者——都无关紧要。”“如果我们关心这些事情，你会把戴上面具、保护自己、保护他人、保护我们的经济视为个人责任。”
Leaders in states seeing 'out of control' coronavirus surges debate mask mandates, rolling back reopenings
Ascoronaviruscases continue to surge across a wide swath of the United States, thepublic debateover face mask requirements andreopenings is pittingseveral state and federal leaders against the White House, with Americans frequently receiving mixed messages.
On ABC's "This Week," leaders from three affected states, Arkansas, Colorado and Florida, discussed the recent spike and theefforts they feelare necessary to prevent further spread.
"The residents here are terrified, and I'm terrified for the first time in my career because there's a lack of leadership," Rep. Donna Shalala, D-Fla., said Sunday. "We simply have not gotten our arms around this."
Shalala, a former secretary of Health and Human Services during the Clinton administration, told "This Week" Co-anchor Martha Raddatz that, given the virus numbers in her Miami congressional district, talk of reopening schools next month was "ridiculous," despite President Donald Trump's ardent opposition. She added her belief that economic activity in the region should again be restricted.
"The real thing we need to do is we need to close down again," said Shalala. "I said four months ago, if we don't do this right, we're going to have to close down again. That's our worst nightmare, and we're going to have to do that in Florida."
Despite a swelling number of cases -- over 80,000 in the past week alone -- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has said that the state is "not going back" on its reopening plans as other states have done, claiming "people going to a business is not what's driving (the surge)." Fellow Republicans, including Trump on Sunday, have claimed statements on closures such as Shalala's are politically motivated.
"The Democrats want to keep the economy closed as long as possible because they think that's good for elections," Trump said on "Fox News Sunday."
As of Saturday, 3.6 million COVID-19 cases have been diagnosed in the United States, and nearly 140,000 people have died of thecoronavirus, according todatacollected by Johns Hopkins University. In the past week, 19 states, including Arkansas and Florida, set single-day records for their number of positive cases, and the nation's death toll has spiked 19%.
Pressed by Raddatz about how already struggling business would cope with another shutdown, the congresswoman pointed to South Florida's economic reliance on tourism and "crowds," and took a long-term position on the dilemma.
"Our economy will not come back until we meet this virus at its head and knock it down," she said. "We simply cannot protect the economy if we don't protect the lives of people in our community."
People walk past the Clevelander South Beach Hotel on July 13, 2020, in Miami Beach, Fla. The hotel announced it was closing again until further notice due to growing concerns about the Covid-19 pandemic in Miami-Dade County.
In Arkansas and Colorado, Govs. Asa Hutchinson and Jared Polis, a Republican and Democrat, respectively, each announced statewide mask mandates to combat rising case numbers, and agreed on "This Week" Sunday that the requirement was necessary, despite not wanting to infringe upon their constituents' freedoms.
With data demonstrating the efficacy of face coverings and a newABC News/Washington Post pollshowing two-thirds of Republicans wear masks when around others, Raddatz asked Hutchinson why the president was opposed to a national mandate and disagreed with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield's claim that universal mask wearing could bring the pandemic "under control" in a matter of weeks.
"How is that helpful to a governor like you who wants people to wear masks?" asked Raddatz.
"Well, I don't support a national mask mandate. I think the states are addressing this," Hutchinson said, adding that it was "important" for the president to wear a mask -- something he has only done once publicly. "We need to wear a mask. That example needs to be set by our national leadership," the governor said.
"(The mask mandate was) not something I wanted to do, but it's something everybody can do to relieve the pressure on our hospitals, to give us a hope to bring down those cases and so we've taken the steps that are necessary," he added. "If we have to put in additional restrictions, we will."
Polis acknowledged concerns about "tell(ing) people what to wear or what to do in their lives," but said Colorado's data showed that the areas of the state with mask requirements had "15 to 20% more mask usage and lower spread of the virus," making a statewide order an "easy decision."
In theABC News/Washington Post poll, 96% of Democrats responded that they wear masks around others, a 30-point difference compared to Republicans, raising questions about the politicization of the issue. Both governors stressed Sunday that "it shouldn't be about politics," as Hutchinson put it.
"I think what's important for people to know is that this is not ideological, it's not partisan, it's science-based," said Polis. "Masks are a ticket to more freedom. It makes it less likely that businesses will be shuttered, it makes it less likely that people will die, it makes it more likely school will return."
"Democrats, Republicans, independents, Greens, Libertarians -- doesn't matter," he continued. "If we care about those things, you're going to take that as a matter of personal responsibility to wear a mask, protect yourself, protect others, protect our economy."
