Dr. “We need to get down from the fall and winter because it won’t be easy,” Anthony Fauci said Thursday.
“I’ve been watching that turn and I’m getting more and more indifferent to the fact that we never get down to the basic line we really want.”
As the weather cools, the activities that Americans are enjoying will probably go indoors, where the virus spreads more easily.
Where we are now
U.S. On the other hand, 28 states are reporting the following trends in their cases – including Florida and California – and 14 states have steady tracking compared to the previous week.
“I don’t think it will take much to bring back 70,000 new cases a day,” he told CNN earlier. Peter Hotz.
Dr .. Deborah Birks, White House Coronavirus Task Force Coordinator, urged people to get tested after the holiday week if they socialize closely so that the community does not spread further.
What will help here
U.S. Dr. Scott, former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. Scott Gottlieb told CBS earlier this week that the chances of the vaccine reaching widespread this year are “extremely low.”
But the U.S. Until the vaccine is available, there are still many ways to prevent the spread of the virus.
Facial ingots remain the most powerful tool in the fight against transmission.
According to one expert, the biggest mistake in epidemics in the country is not getting enough Americans to wear masks.
“When you look at countries where mortality is a part of the United States, the common theme from the onset of the disease was universal masking,” said Dr. George, a CNN medical analyst and professor of medicine at George. Said Jonathan Rainer of the University of Washington.
Infected college students should not be sent home
The University of Texas at Austin announced this week that their campus has three confirmed clusters that collectively account for about 100 positive cases of the virus. San Diego State University confirmed about 400 infections in students earlier this week, several days after announcing the suspension on personal notice.
And since August 1, more than 1,300 Arizona State University students have tested positive for the virus.
Faucci said infected colleges and universities should try to isolate infected students instead of sending them home.
“You send them back to their community, you will in essence do research with individuals who are capable of spreading the infection to many communities across the country,” he said earlier this week.
“So it’s better to have the ability to put them in a place where they can comfortably recover.”
CNN’s Shelby Lynn Erdman, Gisela Crespo, K. Jones and La La Ren Muscarenhas contributed to the report.
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