The 3 W's drive down risk of Covid and must be common practice when we leave our home and are around others. pic.twitter.com/UJAFCPypQI
— Dr. Tom Frieden (@DrTomFrieden) June 14, 2020
Truly amazing that we stopped taking precautions against the virus because we *checks notes* got bored of it.
— Kumail Nanjiani (@kumailn) June 14, 2020
The US Surgeon General urged people to wear face coverings, saying they promote freedom during the coronavirus pandemic: "If more wear them, we'll have MORE freedom to go out" https://t.co/TTTH48aa4Z
— CNN International (@cnni) June 15, 2020
C-SPAN is interviewing a Vanderbilt clinician over Zoom sitting in his home office. He's urging the public to continue wearing masks and a caller just asked, “Well you talk about masks but with all due respect doctor, why ain't you wearin’ a mask right now?“
We are so screwed.— Kenn White (@kennwhite) June 14, 2020
Up to 45 percent of #SARSCoV2 infections may be asymptomatic, according to the Scripps Research Institute https://t.co/a9pShRLiGz via @medical_xpress pic.twitter.com/CSy77cErJk
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) June 14, 2020
115,732 confirmed #covid19 deaths in the United States so far https://t.co/gadJKxkufH
— Carl Zimmer (@carlzimmer) June 15, 2020
States reported about 21,500 new cases today, more than half of them in the south. pic.twitter.com/M9T0NSgZ60
— The COVID Tracking Project (@COVID19Tracking) June 14, 2020
I believe the protests are necessary regardless, but it is heartening that early results show very small numbers of protesters testing positive for COVID: 1.4% in Minneapolis and <1% in Seattle. https://t.co/TjJyrNkVfw https://t.co/XXaTFBkFCB
— Adrian Chen (@AdrianChen) June 15, 2020
Health experts predict #COVID19 will afflict the US for months to come & won’t lose its grip on the United States any time soon, leading infectious disease experts are saying. They're uncertain how the patchwork of reopening plans will affect the virus https://t.co/ncMefL2DCt pic.twitter.com/gTjmnI9J77
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) June 14, 2020
… “This virus is not going to rest” until it infects about 60 percent to 70 percent of the population, said Dr. Michael T. Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, in an appearance on “Fox News Sunday.”
Experts have estimated that without a vaccine, about 70 percent of the population will need to be infected and develop immunity in order to stop the virus’s spread, a concept called herd immunity. The current number of confirmed American cases is over 2 million, less than 1 percent of the U.S. population, according to a New York Times database.
Dr. Osterholm said that recent data show the rate of infection has been level in eight states, increasing in 22 states and decreasing in the rest. The increase is not simply due to more widely available testing, the experts said, noting that Covid-19 hospitalizations are rising in several states.
“At this point, hospitals are at risk of getting overwhelmed and that is basically signaling to me that those states are already behind,” said Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, medical director of the special pathogens unit at Boston University School of Medicine, on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently said that by July 4, coronavirus deaths in the United States would likely jump from the current level of about 116,000 to somewhere between 124,000 and 140,000…
7,998,006 #Coronavirus cases as of 2020-06-15 03:20:02 pic.twitter.com/zEMQeNd6mK
— Coronavirus Data Tracking Bot (@corona_tracking) June 15, 2020
China reports 57 new #coronavirus cases, highest daily number in 2 months https://t.co/3QszI9D2Ds via @medical_xpress
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) June 14, 2020
A sign of how alarmed the Beijing authorities are about the coronavirus outbreak: Even the State Council press conferences, which continued during the worst of the epidemic and where masks were banned, have been cancelled pic.twitter.com/LHVF0l2v0q
— Anna Fifield (@annafifield) June 14, 2020
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