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Dr. Zeke Emanuel (Rahm's brother) predicts 12 tough months ahead for US and coronavirus
in this interview with MarketWatch. Here's an excerpt, but the whole interview is worth reading.
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, an oncologist, adviser to Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and vice provost for global initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania, says Americans have a tough 12 months ahead.
“It’ll be closer to November, closer toward the end” of 2021, Zeke Emanuel told MarketWatch. “But it’ll probably be enough to begin opening colleges and universities [and] schools, again depending on how we distribute this thing and how effective we can be on that.”
For now, however, the focus is reducing transmission of the virus at a time when we are all starting to spend more time indoors and as pandemic fatigue is setting in. “There are four things that increase transmission: indoors, crowds, long periods of time, and then coughing, sneezing, singing [and] yelling,” he said. “If you put a group of people indoors, [and] one of whom is infected, it’s predictable what’s going to happen.”
MarketWatch: One final question on your work with the Biden campaign. What do you think a Biden presidency would bring to addressing some of the big issues with the pandemic?
Emanuel: There are four major things. You’re going to change the tone around this. You’re going to have a president who actually models the public health interventions, with a mask, social distancing, not getting into crowds. You’re going to have experts giving you the briefings, not politicos. We’d have experts giving guidance, like the CDC will begin developing real guidance that it’s capable of, not the sort of light-handed guidance that we’ve gotten. You’re going to have someone or a committee that coordinates this thing, that has a subgroup on [personal protective equipment], a subgroup on testing, a subgroup on therapeutics, a subgroup on vaccines.
You’re going to have much more effective coordination with states so that they all have the same script that they’re working with and are not working at cross-purposes. But also importantly is you’re going to have evaluation and refinement. One thing I’ve experienced with Vice President Biden, when he ran the stimulus package under President Obama, was he was constantly evaluating. Is it having the impact? Do we need to change how we’re funding things? Is it really doing the job, rather than just shovel the money out the door and turn your back? He is this practical guy. Are we doing what we’re supposed to be doing? Are we getting to our goal?
“It’ll be closer to November, closer toward the end” of 2021, Zeke Emanuel told MarketWatch. “But it’ll probably be enough to begin opening colleges and universities [and] schools, again depending on how we distribute this thing and how effective we can be on that.”
For now, however, the focus is reducing transmission of the virus at a time when we are all starting to spend more time indoors and as pandemic fatigue is setting in. “There are four things that increase transmission: indoors, crowds, long periods of time, and then coughing, sneezing, singing [and] yelling,” he said. “If you put a group of people indoors, [and] one of whom is infected, it’s predictable what’s going to happen.”
MarketWatch: One final question on your work with the Biden campaign. What do you think a Biden presidency would bring to addressing some of the big issues with the pandemic?
Emanuel: There are four major things. You’re going to change the tone around this. You’re going to have a president who actually models the public health interventions, with a mask, social distancing, not getting into crowds. You’re going to have experts giving you the briefings, not politicos. We’d have experts giving guidance, like the CDC will begin developing real guidance that it’s capable of, not the sort of light-handed guidance that we’ve gotten. You’re going to have someone or a committee that coordinates this thing, that has a subgroup on [personal protective equipment], a subgroup on testing, a subgroup on therapeutics, a subgroup on vaccines.
You’re going to have much more effective coordination with states so that they all have the same script that they’re working with and are not working at cross-purposes. But also importantly is you’re going to have evaluation and refinement. One thing I’ve experienced with Vice President Biden, when he ran the stimulus package under President Obama, was he was constantly evaluating. Is it having the impact? Do we need to change how we’re funding things? Is it really doing the job, rather than just shovel the money out the door and turn your back? He is this practical guy. Are we doing what we’re supposed to be doing? Are we getting to our goal?
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/dr-zeke-emanuel-says-this-is-what-it-will-take-to-fully-reopen-the-us-2020-10-21?mod=home-page
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