ニューヨーク「医薬品不足まであと10日」

　市長自ら語る。なにしろニューヨークは合衆国の流行の中心地であって、この国の症例の半数ほどを占めるのだ。世界の症例数に比して5％ほどとか。

BBC Coronavirus: New York warns of major medical shortages in 10 days 23 Mar 2020

　医療に必要な物資の不足で犠牲は加速されるであろう、という。
　米国全体で症例総数31,057、死者390人。死亡確率1％。

「The coronavirus outbreak in New York will get worse, with damage accelerated by shortages of key medical supplies, the city's mayor has said.

"We're about 10 days away from seeing widespread shortages," Bill de Blasio said on Sunday. "If we don't get more ventilators people will die."」

「New York state has become the epicentre of the outbreak in the US and accounts for almost half of the country's cases.

There are now 31,057 confirmed cases nationwide, with 390 deaths.」

「全てのアメリカ人は真実を知るべきだ」「状況は悪化するばかり、実際のところ4月から5月はもっと悪くなるだろう」。なお中央政府のトップ、トランプ大統領とは折り合いが悪いようで、中央政府の手が遅いことを批判する。

「"All Americans deserve the blunt truth," Mr de Blasio told NBC News. "It's only getting worse, and in fact April and May are going to be a lot worse."」

「New York now accounts for roughly 5% of Covid-19 cases worldwide.」

　イリノイ州では医療関係の消耗品を取り合う状況。病院がマスク・グローブを入手できない！

「And on Sunday, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker said states were "competing against each other" for virus supplies.

"We need millions of masks and hundreds of thousands of gowns and gloves," he said. "We're getting just a fraction of that. So, we're out on the open market competing for these items that we so badly need."」

　…こういうときに国家備蓄が使えればいいんですが。