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是否会有1.5亿美国人被感染？美副总统：成千上万吧
是否会有1.5亿美国人被感染？美副总统：成千上万吧
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[文/观察者网 王世纯]美国新冠疫情持续恶化，然而美国防疫措施和检测工作却一直“停滞不前”。面对恶化的疫情，11日美国国会主治医师给出了极为悲观的预测：美国最多会有1.5亿人感染，80%痊愈。
当被问及这一悲观推测时，白宫应对新冠肺炎疫情特别工作组负责人，美国副总统彭斯3月12日在接受媒体采访时承认，这种冠状病毒比流感“更致命”，并预测美国可能会新增“成千上万的病例”。
不过当被问及是“成千上万还是几百万”时，彭斯拒绝回答这一问题并表示“让专家回答”。
然而，就在彭斯接受采访的同日，美国头号感染学家安东尼·福奇警告称，如果美国“再不采取果断措施”，美国将有“数百万人被感染”。
彭斯接受全国广播公司采访 图源：NBC节目
据美国时政新闻网站“国会山”（The Hill）3月13日报道，当地时间12日，美国副总统、白宫应对新冠肺炎疫情特别工作组负责人彭斯在“今日”节目中接受了美国全国广播公司（NBC）主持人萨凡纳·格思里的采访。本次采访中，彭斯回答了美国感染人数预测、特朗普政府应对措施以及病毒致死率等公众关心的话题。
此前3月11日，美国全国广播公司（NBC）曝料称，在本周的一次国会内部闭门会议上，美国国会和美国最高法院的主治医师布赖恩·帕特里克·莫纳汉（Brian Patrick Monahan）向参议院工作人员表示，预计7000万至1.5亿的美国人可能会感染新冠病毒。这意味着在最坏情况下，接近一半的美国人将感染新冠病毒。这一夸张数字引发美国民众关注。
当美国全国广播公司（NBC）主持人萨凡纳·格思里询问彭斯，如何看待主治医师莫纳汉的评估有三分之一人口会被感染时，彭斯表示，会有“成千上万”（Thousands）美国人将感染新冠病毒。
随后主持人格思进一步质询“是成千上万（thousands）还是数百万（millions）”时，彭斯拒绝回答这一问题，并表示“我将让专家来估计可能有多少人被感染。”
然而，就在彭斯接收采访同日，美国头号传染病专家却警告，如果美国再不采取措施，会有“数百万人感染”。
美国国家过敏和传染病研究所所长安东尼·福奇众议院的一场听证会上回答有关新冠疫情的问题
同在12日，美国国家过敏和传染病研究所所长安东尼·福奇众议院的一场听证会上对所有国会议员发出严厉警告称，如果美国不积极采取措施遏制和缓解疫情，确诊数可能会大幅上升到“数百万人”。
福奇表示，新冠肺炎的致死率是季节性流感的10倍。“这就是我要强调的原因，我们必须要在预防这种情况方面保持领先地位”。他还表示，美国人不应认为新冠病毒会随着天气变暖而“消失”。
在采访中，彭斯改口称，新冠病毒“不是流感”，致死率确实要比流感要高。不过彭斯补充说，全球数据显示，这种病毒对有潜在健康问题的老年人构成“非常严重后果的威胁”，但对较年轻的美国人则不然，“尤其是15岁以下的儿童”。
此前3月4日，美国总统特朗普在节目中将新冠肺炎（coronavirus）说成是“新冠流感”（corona flu），全然不顾WHO强调两者不同的说法。而再往前，《华盛顿邮报》报道称，当美国还只有15例确诊病例时，特朗普在2月27日的发布会曾表示，这个确诊数很快就会将为0，“也许病毒可能就不会传播开来”。
在采访中，彭斯还为特朗普政府对疫情的应对措施进行了辩护，彭斯表示特朗普总统采取了“前所未有的行动”，在病毒爆发期间“暂停所有从欧洲到美国的同行”，并表示特朗普做出这一决定是因为“我们知道未来几天还会有更多的感染病例”。
截至美东时间3月12日下午，美国至少已有1459例新冠肺炎确诊病例，其中包括死亡病例39例。
虽然美国目前病例仅有1400例，但美国《国会山》在3月12日的报道中给出了这样一组数据：从今年1月美国首例确诊病例出现以来，疾控中心和公共卫生实验室仅仅做了1.1万份新冠病毒的样本检测。对此，美国国家过敏和传染病研究所所长安东尼•福奇直言，美国检测系统“并不真正适合我们现在的需要。不能做到你所要求的（人人都能做检测）。这是一次失败，我们承认吧。”
Will 150 million Americans be infected? US Vice President: Thousands
Will 150 million Americans be infected? US Vice President: Thousands
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文 [Writer / Observer.com Wang Shichun] The U.S. new crown epidemic continues to worsen, but U.S. epidemic prevention measures and testing have been “stagnant”. Faced with a worsening epidemic, the attending physician of the United States Congress on the 11th gave a very pessimistic forecast: up to 150 million people will be infected in the United States and 80% will be cured.
When asked about this pessimistic speculation, U.S. Vice President Pence, the White House task force responsible for the new crown pneumonia epidemic, acknowledged in a media interview on March 12 that this coronavirus is "more deadly" than influenza and predicted The United States could add "thousands of cases."
But when asked whether it was "tens or millions", Burns declined to answer the question and said "let the experts answer."
However, on the same day that Pence was interviewed, America ’s number one infection scientist Anthony Fauci warned that if the United States “does not take decisive measures”, the United States will have “millions of people infected.”
Pence is interviewed by the National Broadcasting Corporation. Source: NBC show Pence is interviewed by the National Broadcasting Corporation. Source: NBC Show
According to the US current affairs news website "The Hill" reported on March 13th, on the 12th local time, the U.S. Vice President and head of the White House special task force to respond to the new crown pneumonia epidemic was accepted by the United States on the "Today" program. Interview with Savannah Guthrie, NBC host. In this interview, Pence answered topics of public concern such as the number of people infected in the United States, the Trump administration's response, and virus mortality.
Earlier on March 11, the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) disclosed that in a closed-door meeting of Congress this week, Brian Patrick, the attending physician of the US Congress and the US Supreme Court, said Monahan told Senate staff that 70 million to 150 million Americans are expected to be infected with the new crown virus. This means that in the worst case, nearly half of Americans will be infected with the new crown virus. This exaggerated figure has attracted the attention of the American public.
When National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) host Savannah Guthrie asked Pence how to treat the treating physician Monahan's assessment that one-third of the population would be infected, Pence said there would be "thousands Thousands of Americans will be infected with the new crown virus.
When the host Guth asked further "thousands or millions", Pence declined to answer the question and stated "I will let experts estimate how many people may be infected. "
However, the same day that Pence was interviewed, the number one infectious disease expert in the United States warned that if the United States does not take further measures, there will be "millions of people infected."
安东尼 Anthony Fudge, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, answers questions about the new crown outbreak at a hearing in the House of Representatives
Also on the 12th, a hearing from the House of Representatives of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Anthony Fauchi, issued a severe warning to all members of Congress that if the United States does not take steps to contain and alleviate the outbreak, the number of confirmed diagnoses may It rose sharply to "millions of people."
Foqi said that the mortality rate of new coronary pneumonia is 10 times that of seasonal influenza. "That's why I want to emphasize that we have to stay ahead in preventing this situation." He also said that Americans should not think that the new crown virus will "disappear" as the weather warms.
In an interview, Pence rephrased that the new crown virus "is not flu", and the mortality rate is indeed higher than the flu. However, Pence added that global data show that the virus poses a "very serious threat to elderly people with potential health problems," but not to younger Americans, "especially children under 15".
Earlier on March 4, US President Trump described coronavirus as "corona flu" on the show, ignoring WHO's emphasis on the difference between the two. Moving forward, the Washington Post reported that when there were only 15 confirmed cases in the United States, Trump said at a press conference on February 27 that the number of confirmed cases would soon be zero, "maybe The virus may not spread. "
In an interview, Pence also defended the Trump administration's response to the outbreak, and Pence said that President Trump has taken "unprecedented action" to "suspend all his colleagues from Europe to the United States" during the virus outbreak And said Trump made this decision because "we know there will be more cases of infection in the next few days."
As of the afternoon of March 12, Eastern Time, there have been at least 1459 confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in the United States, including 39 deaths.
Although there are only 1,400 cases in the United States, the US Capitol Hill reported in the March 12 report that since the first confirmed case in the United States in January this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Public Health The laboratory only tested 11,000 new coronavirus samples. In response, Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, bluntly stated that the US detection system "is not really suitable for our current needs. It cannot do what you ask (everyone can do the test). This is One failure, let's admit it. "
