The coronavirus situation should be getting better, not worse.
compiled by John Hopkins University and analyzed by CNBC, new COVID-19 cases are up more than 14% compared to last week. That’s nearly 50,000 new cases a day over the last week.
“I think we’re facing a whole lot of trouble,” Anthony Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984, toldIn addition to having a “baseline” of infections between 40,000 and 50,000 per day, we’re seeing an increase in the number of people who for the virus, which Dr. Fauci said is “always a predictor of more cases and ultimately more hospitalizations and ultimately more death.”The good news: There are five simple things that every person in this country can do that would drastically improve our coronavirus case numbers. “We’re not talking about shutting down the country,” Dr. Fauci said. “We’re talking about prudent, careful, serious public health considerations.
Those public health measures will likely sound familiar. While some of them may be tough to adopt due to specific circumstances in your life—like if you have to work indoors at a restaurant to make your living—it’s good to stick to these five COVID-19 prevention steps as often as you can.
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