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(CCTV Finance "First Time") Recently, with the rapid spread of the "Omicron mutant strain", the epidemic curve in the United States is "almost vertically rising", and the number of new confirmed cases in a single day has repeatedly reached a new high. The epidemic situation is grim, the problem of "difficult detection" of the new crown virus in the United States is becoming increasingly prominent, and there are even cases where state governments and the federal government are competing for free kits.
In response to the "difficult detection" of the new crown virus, the US federal government has promised to distribute test kits to the public free of charge, and has ordered a total of 1 billion kits to this end. However, some Republican governors recently said that federal orders "squeezed out" state orders, making it impossible for states to get the kits they ordered.
The Maryland government recently said that the state government had ordered millions of kits before, and should have arrived in large quantities in the near future, but was told by all suppliers that due to the US federal government adding 500 million kit orders last week, the kits produced by manufacturers were taken away by the federal government.
The Clark County Government of Ohio also attributed the shortage of test kits to the federal government's increased order for kits on the 20th. In this regard, White House officials denied it, and said that the federal government's kit procurement contract stipulates that "procurement cannot interfere with other state and commercial orders", which may cause confusion and communication errors due to excessive ordering of kits; in addition, some manufacturers "take orders that exceed their production capacity" but use the federal government's procurement as a "shield".
On the other hand, the intensification of the epidemic has also led to a serious shortage of manpower in various industries in the United States, and there have been serious shortages of staff in schools across the United States. In Texas, some schools have even appealed to parents of students, hoping that they can take over the work of some substitute teachers and school bus drivers to ensure that school teaching is carried out normally. The principal of a school in Austin, the state, said that even if there is more money, it will not solve the problem of understaffing, so parents are in urgent need of help. A local parent said he chose to volunteer because he didn't want students to miss out on opportunities to learn offline.
It is reported that due to the shortage of teachers, some schools in the United States have now abandoned the requirement that substitute teachers must teach offline. Many colleges and universities in Texas have temporarily abolished the credit system.
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(Edited by Gong Xinyu)