Virus at 'turning point' in Europe, hitting at-risk groups Doctors are warning that Europe is at a turning point as the coronavirus surges back across the continent, including among vulnerable people, and governments try to impose restrictions without locking whole economies downMILAN -- Doctors are warning that Europe is at a turning point as the coronavirus surges back across the continent, including among vulnerable people, and governments try to impose restrictions without locking whole economies down. In the United States, new cases per day are on the rise in 44 states, and deaths per day are climbing in 30. “We are really at a turning point — things can go both ways.”But while officials are sounding the alarm on rising cases, they are also wary of imposing the stricter nationwide lockdowns that devastated their economies this spring. "We know of a number of cities across Europe where ICU capacity will be reached in the in the coming weeks,” she said. Galli said Italy ’’will follow in the footsteps″ of its European neighbors unless the transmission chain is blocked in the next two weeks.

Source: ABC News October 16, 2020 13:56 UTC