...but, the best response may be to reset the initial effort. This would be especially important considering the wintertime explosion of cases.
The USA has reached a ridiculous point in time with this virus, in that some hospitals are allowing symptom-free nurses testing positive for the virus to care for positive patients. That is a hideous thought and yet here we are in the USA doing exactly that. This new reality is a very different place the USA was only a short time ago. It is time to make important decisions. The states should be implementing strict measures as soon as possible ahead of January 20, 2021.
A coronavirus adviser to Joe Biden (click here) has encouraged the president-elect to follow a New Zealand and Australia-style lockdown for four to six weeks as he warned of an approaching "Covid hell".
Dr Michael Osterholm said a US national lockdown may be the best way to limit deaths and new coronavirus infections until a vaccine arrives.
Osterholm, the director of the Centre for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, was appointed on Monday to Biden's 12-member Covid "advisory board".
He said such a lockdown would help the country bring the virus under control, "like they did in New Zealand and Australia".
Osterholm claimed that the US economy will not suffer as a result, if enough money is borrowed to pay wages during the shutdowns.
"We could pay for a package right now to cover all of the wages, lost wages for individual workers for losses to small companies to medium-sized companies or city, state, county governments. We could do all of that," Osterholm told Yahoo Finance. "If we did that, then we could lockdown for four-to-six weeks."...
