Philadelphia pediatrician Paul Offit: Prepare to wear masks and socially distance even after getting
Philadelphia pediatrician Paul Offit: Prepare to wear masks and socially distance even after getting COVID-19 vaccine
Dr. Paul Offit, a pediatrician at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a co-inventor of the rotavirus vaccine, told friends not to worry about the coronavirus. He went on CNN with the journalist Christiane Amanpour to talk about why the virus that was hitting Asia so hard would not impact the U.S. any more than the flu.
“I am on the record as being dead wrong about this,” Offit said.
His come-to-Jesus moment? When he realized that Americans were not prepared to wear masks and lock down their lives in the same way that people did in countries including China and South Korea.
“I never imagined it would be this bad,” he said. “Looking at what happened in China, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, I was looking at the size of those countries compared with the size of our country, and I thought there is no way this virus is going to be worse than the flu this year.”
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/dr-offit-prepare-to-wear-masks-and-socially-distance-even-after-getting-covid-19-vaccine-2020-09-17
