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ROME (AP) — The United States’ failure to contain the spread of the coronavirus has been met with astonishment and alarm in Europe, as the world’s most powerful country edges closer to a global record of 5 million confirmed infections.
Perhaps nowhere outside the U.S. is America’s bungled virus response viewed with more consternation than in Italy, which was ground zero of Europe’s epidemic. Italians were unprepared when the outbreak exploded in February and the country still has one of the world’s highest official death tolls at 35,000.
But after a strict nationwide 10-week lockdown, vigilant tracing of new clusters and general acceptance of mask mandates and social distancing, Italy has become a model of virus containment....
“Don’t they care about their health?” a mask-clad Patrizia Antonini asked about people in the United States as she walked with friends along the banks of Lake Bracciano, north of Rome. “They need to take our precautions ... They need a real lockdown.”
Much of the incredulity in Europe stems from the fact that America had the benefit of time, European experience and medical know-how to treat the virus that the continent itself didn’t have when the first COVID-19 patients started filling intensive care units. Yet, more than four months into a sustained outbreak, the U.S. is about to hit an astonishing milestone of 5 million confirmed infections, easily the highest in the world. Health officials believe the actual number is closer to 50 million, given testing limitations and the fact that as many as 40% of all cases are asymptomatic....
“We Italians always saw America as a model,” said Massimo Franco, columnist with daily Corriere della Sera. “But with this virus we’ve discovered a country that is very fragile, with bad infrastructure and a public health system that is nonexistent.”...
With America’s list-leading 160,000 dead, politicized resistance to masks and rising caseload, European nations have barred American tourists and visitors from other countries with growing cases from freely traveling to the bloc.
France and Germany are now imposing tests on arrival for travelers from “at risk” countries, the U.S. included....
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Coronavirus Spikes In Ireland, France, Spain And Italy Put Europ
Europe, once the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, has been hailed worldwide for its countries’ strict lockdowns and how they appeared to have beat back the virus’ damage—but months out from the initial rollbacks on coronavirus restrictions, many countries across the continent are reporting an increasing number of new cases, putting officials on edge for what’s next....
European countries that saw massive drops in new infections and coronavirus deaths after strict lockdowns in spring are beginning to report new, slight upticks in cases that have encouraged officials to consider implementing social distancing guidelines again. Many of the new outbreaks have been linked to young people going to parties. However, while European officials are concerned over the new clusters, the new daily totals are nothing compared to those seen in battered countries like the United States and Brazil, the world’s worst-hit countries that are reporting thousands of new cases per day. ...