'I'm looking at the summer as if we do a good job then we can have a good fall and the fall is more essential in my mind,' said Dr. Preeti Malani, chief health officer and infectious disease specialist at the University of Michigan.
As states push forward with plans to ease restrictions and as protests over the police killing of George Floyd engulf the nation, a slow burn of infection through the summer could lead to a massive resurgence this fall.
Hundreds of protesters made their way toward Barclays Center in Brooklyn to demonstrate against police brutality, May 29, 2020.The U.S. is heading for a nasty fall as the coronavirus continues to circulate while protests rage across the nation over George Floyd's killing and states ease restrictions on businesses, public health specialists warn.
If that number doesn't fall, Gottlieb said the rate of infection, which has plateaued in recent weeks, could reignite when the weather changes later this year."A handful of cases seeded the country back in January.
Public health officials across the U.S. have largely banned mass gatherings. Mardis Gras, Carnivale in Brazil and Miami's spring break later proved to be super spreading events, and epidemiologists like Emory University's Bob Bednarczyk, PhD, say the mass protests could prove to be the same. People are forced into close contact at such protests, shouting and chanting, which are both factors that contribute to spread he said.
Health specialists and economists have repeatedly called for the U.S. to ramp up its ability for widespread testing. While the country's average daily number of tests nearly doubled in May compared to April, it still falls short of the massive testing programs that some have called for. "I'm looking at the summer as if we do a good job then we can have a good fall and the fall is more essential in my mind," said Dr. Preeti Malani, chief health officer and infectious disease specialist at the University of Michigan. "But that gap between doing okay to being back into a state where we might not have enough ventilators is a narrow gap. And it can just shift within a couple of weeks if a lot of people make bad decisions.
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