Acting Homeland Security Sec. Chad Wolf tells NBCNews that the US is doing a “great job” at reopening amid the coronavirus pandemic, even as rising caseloads across the country have prompted concern from public health officials.
Dr. Michael Osterholm, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, criticized America’s lack of a “national plan” Sunday.
“While other areas have done much better around the world in stopping it after a very difficult period of time with it, we haven’t done that. Part of that is the fact that we just have not really gotten the message across to the public yet that this is a very serious issue, that we can’t shut down our economy but we can’t just suddenly say we are done with it,” he said.“This virus is operating on its own time under its own rules, not anything we impose on it.
Twenty-six states have recorded a spike in cases of at least 20 percent over the past two weeks, according to NBC News data. One of those states is Oklahoma, where Trump held an indoor campaign rally Saturday night in Tulsa that key members of his coronavirus task force warned against holding,During the rally, Trump called testing a “double-edged sword” because more testing increases caseloads, and said that he told his administration to “slow the testing down.
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