'The first wave has come and never left.' Other countries experienced a brutal first wave of COVID-19 for 2-3 months. In the U.S., we're into month eight. Public health expert Dr. Howard Koh talks the fall and what we need to defeat COVID-19:
This interview is part of a series of conversations MarketWatch is conducting with some of the leading voices in the U.S. on the COVID-19 pandemic.
MarketWatch: What are some things you’d like Americans to better understand about how we develop drugs and vaccines in the U.S.? MarketWatch: Just to clarify: the EUA means that any COVID patient who fits that profile or the indication can now receive plasma. So there would be no need to enroll in a trial?
But we’ve got a long way to go. In every step of this pandemic, our country has underestimated the tenacity of this virus and overestimated our ability to contain it. As a result, we’re into month eight of the “first wave” whereas so many countries around the world got through this in two and a half to three months. We opened up too early. We let down our guard. There’s not been a coordinated national strategy. Every state is pursuing their own strategy.
— Dr. Howard Koh Koh: We’ve never had a national strategy. It’s always been 50 states.
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