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babylonsister

(171,029 posts)
Tue May 26, 2020, 07:45 AM May 2020

WHO Warns First Wave Not Over

https://politicalwire.com/2020/05/26/who-warns-first-wave-not-over/

WHO Warns First Wave Not Over
May 26, 2020 at 6:27 am EDT By Taegan Goddard


“The risks of reigniting coronavirus outbreaks are complicating efforts to fend off further misery for the many millions who have lost jobs, with a top health expert warning that the world is still in the midst of a ‘first wave’ of the pandemic,” the AP reports.

Said WHO executive director Mike Ryan: “Right now, we’re not in the second wave. We’re right in the middle of the first wave globally. We’re still very much in a phase where the disease is actually on the way up,”
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uponit7771

(90,301 posts)
2. When infection rate bottoms out to around 10 per million daily which is another metric "open" states
Tue May 26, 2020, 07:59 AM
May 2020

...are openly ignoring.

All this so the economy can go from -40 to -30%

Hugin

(33,032 posts)
3. You'd never know it reading all of the mass media gadflies...
Tue May 26, 2020, 08:05 AM
May 2020

glad-handing the end of the pandemic.

Of the stages of grief, I think they're still somewhere in the first stage: Denial.


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