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LiberalArkie

(15,686 posts)
Fri Apr 24, 2020, 11:46 PM Apr 2020

The Scariest Pandemic Timeline

If you held out a glimmer of hope about life returning to normal this year, that hope may have been thoroughly extinguished this week by the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Robert Redfield.

“There’s a possibility that the assault of the virus on our nation next winter will actually be even more difficult than the one we just went through,” Redfield told The Washington Post on Tuesday. “We’re going to have the flu epidemic and the coronavirus epidemic at the same time.”

President Trump later tried to claim that Redfield had been misquoted, but Redfield clarified that he was quoted accurately. He’s also far from the only person who believes that the United States is in for a bleak winter. Numerous public-health experts are concerned that COVID-19 might make a comeback this fall (assuming that total case numbers even drop to begin with). In combination with the normal, October-through-March flu season, the disease could strain hospital capacity even more than it did this spring, when flu season was petering out. “It’s going to be a very difficult fall and winter this year coming up,” says Ashish Jha, the director of the Harvard Global Health Institute.

Scientists don’t yet know if the coronavirus will fade away during the summer before making a resurgence in colder temperatures. Some other respiratory illnesses do this: During the 2009 swine-flu outbreak, cases surged in the spring, subsided over the summer, then returned with a vengeance in the autumn. But the new coronavirus strain’s behavior is still too mysterious to predict for certain. Experts expect the virus to circulate among humans for some time, but its particular ebbs and flows aren’t yet known.

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https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/04/could-there-be-another-coronavirus-quarantine/610630/?utm_source=digg

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The Scariest Pandemic Timeline (Original Post) LiberalArkie Apr 2020 OP
The only way to control Covid-19 is through regular mass testing and contact tracing, in Doodley Apr 2020 #1
+1000000000 Lochloosa Apr 2020 #3
This!👆 SheltieLover Apr 2020 #5
This is why it will be hard to bring sports back in 2020 Renew Deal Apr 2020 #2
I expect social distancing will mean a much less serious flu season than normal Alhena Apr 2020 #4

Doodley

(8,976 posts)
1. The only way to control Covid-19 is through regular mass testing and contact tracing, in
Fri Apr 24, 2020, 11:53 PM
Apr 2020

addition to social distancing.

Renew Deal

(81,801 posts)
2. This is why it will be hard to bring sports back in 2020
Fri Apr 24, 2020, 11:55 PM
Apr 2020

Basketball might be able to get wrapped up if they have a single elimination tournament. Same for hockey. The rest of the sports have a big problem.

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