The new coronavirus is spreading too quickly and too fast to contain it, CDC Deputy Chief Director Anne Schuchat told The Journal of the American Medical Association on Monday, warning that she hopes “this virus will continue to circulate.”
Because it is important: According to Schuchat, “This is really the beginning, and we hope that we can take it seriously and delay the transmission.” His comments contrast with those of leading members of the Trump administration, particularly Vice President Mike Pence, who said Friday “We have made really remarkable progress.”
- COVID-19 cases are springing up across the United States, prompting Texas and New Jersey to pause plans to reopen their economies in recent days.
What else is he saying: “We have too many viruses across the country for that right now, so it’s very daunting, “Schuchat said in the Howard Bauchner’s Journal.
- She said there were “many illusions across the country” that the pandemic would end in the summer. “We’re not even starting to get past this. There are a lot of worrying factors over the last week or so.”
“We are not in the situation in New Zealand, Singapore or Korea, where a new case is quickly identified and all contacts are located and people who are sick are isolated and exposed people are quarantined and can keep things under control. control”. “
What they are saying White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said during a briefing on Monday: “We are aware that there are embers that must be put out, but these signs of decreased mortality, increased and improved therapeutics that we have identified, four of them: dexamethasone, convalescent plasma and remdesivir, and one more, that are working Remdesivir, in particular, reduces hospitalization time by a third.
- “So these things make us uniquely equipped to handle the growing cases we’ve seen.”
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