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Infectious disease experts are warning Americans to rethink their priorities with winter approaching more swiftly than people would like to think, bringing with it the possibility of an even worse coronavirus crisis.
The problem is many people aren't taking advantage of the breathing room summer provides to curb the virus' spread, opting instead to return to pre-pandemic routines, Stat News reports. "We just continue to squander every bit of opportunity we get with this epidemic to get it under control," said epidemiologist Michael Mina, an assistant professor in Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health and associate medical director of clinical microbiology at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital. "The best time to squash a pandemic is when the environmental characteristics slow transmission. It's your one opportunity in the year, really, to leverage that extra assistance and get transmission under control."
There's still time do that, per Stat, but if Americans don't act quickly, they can expect bleaker-than-usual winter months. Michael Osterholm, the director of the Center for Infectious Diseases Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, predicted that, without a new lockdown or barring an effective vaccine before the end of the year, winter will force people indoors and exacerbate the pandemic, which he said will see peaks "by far" exceeding the one the U.S. just experienced in recent weeks. Read more at Stat News.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/next-coronavirus-peaks-far-exceed-141100636.html
iemitsu
(3,888 posts)huge numbers of cases that students will be bringing home from school.
100,000 cases of American kids with corona in the last two weeks of July.
Our nation is suicidal.
Blue Owl
(50,498 posts)If that doesn't sum up tRump in 3 words, nothing does...
Midnight Writer
(21,795 posts)Sadly, working together requires leadership, not snarky tweets.
samnsara
(17,635 posts)...to get booze ( Kirkland Tequila) and cheese and the obligatory cases of tp, paper towels etc. When we finally found dried beans ( at the local Mexican Market) I thought i scored!! They will last for years.