Since February this year, American states have lifted the epidemic prevention restrictions on COVID-19. Recently, members of the White House COVID-19 Response Task Force further indicated that the government plans to stop paying for COVID-19's testing, treatment and vaccine from this fall. Many media and think tanks in the United States and Britain have focused on the consequences of the US "lying flat" policy. A famous host also wrote on the social media platform: "There are more people who die every week in the United States because of COVID-19 than the victims of' 9.11'!"
Current situation of American epidemic situation
American society does not need the "freedom" of wearing masks in public places, putting people with low immunity at risk. Dr Jeannina Smith, medical director of the Infectious Diseases Program at the University of Wisconsin Hospital in the United States, said that during the epidemic, she found that many organ transplant patients were delayed in treatment because they were infected with COVID-19 virus.
Smith said: "I have a transplant recipient who has been with me all the time. She was seriously ill in the hospital, but it was in this medical and health institution that she was infected with COVID-19 virus for the second time. The patient cried to me:' It's cruel to see people indifferent to my life to the point where wearing a mask is troublesome.' Regarding the US government's attitude of neglecting epidemic prevention, Smith stressed that "this will cause far-reaching damage to public health, and may even be permanent."