Posted on 04/22/2020 6:47:20 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Robert Redfield, is warning that while we're now reaching the apex of infections by the coronavirus, the outbreak could be even worse next winter.
Redfield told the Washington Post that we actually lucked out this year. If the virus had hit us a few weeks earlier, medical facilities and resources would also have been needed for other seasonal diseases like the flu, pneumonia, and bronchitis.
But there will be no escaping this problem next winter.
The coronavirus is both more contagious and more deadly than seasonal influenza, and a vaccine against it almost certainly won't be available by the time flu season comes around.
While some clinical trials for coronavirus treatments are showing encouraging signs, the US is still likely 12 to 18 months away from developing a deployable vaccine.
Because of that, Redfield said, it will be more important than ever for people to get their flu shots to reduce their risk and help lessen the burden on the healthcare system. He told The Postthat more people getting vaccinated against the flu "may allow there to be a hospital bed available for your mother or grandmother that may get coronavirus."
But Dr. Deborah Brix, who heads up the White House task force on the coronavirus, thinks we may be able to avoid the more serious effects of a second wave of virus infections during flu season.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
A wave of coronavirus in flu season could put immense strain on the country’s health care system. However, Dr. Deborah Birx, response coordinator for the White House Coronavirus Task Force, on Tuesday said she wasn’t sure that a second wave of coronavirus would be more serious than what the U.S. has already seen.
“I don’t know if it will be worse, I think this has been pretty bad,” Dr. Birx said at a White House press conference. “When you see what happened in New York, that was very bad….I believe that we’ll have early warning signals” in place to detect a second outbreak, Dr. Birx added.
Contact tracing may be seen by some as intrusive, but it's an immensely helpful tool that, if done correctly, will save lives and keep the economy going even during another outbreak.
We might expect a lot of local "shelter in place" orders that will target a specific geographical area. Once a cluster of cases is discovered, the contact tracers go to work and in a relatively short period of time, can determine how serious it's likely to be as well as narrowing down the location of a potential outbreak.
I feel they want to keep us inside for years and crash the economy,=.
If it “may” then it also “may not.”
Your problem is feeling
You should think
i’d like government employees to have their assets frozen and their pay stopped during any lockdown.
Then just maybe they’d see another point of view.
Just go shopping most people out there are so Paranoid it’s insane and they’re surrounded by Human Bombs
Yes. This is even what the vaunted Dr. Fauci has said in prior pressers. A second outbreak (if it happens at all, far from certain) is something they’d be much better prepared to contain for all the reasons you cite.
Apparently the press listens to him very selectively.
IMO this is merely CDC bureaucrats pimping for their next appropriation. It’s they way the game is played in D.C.
And if we had taken an approach closer to Sweden’s this wouldn’t be an issue.
I wish these idiots would STFU. They have been wrong more than they have been right. I could have pulled guesses out of thin air and been right as much as they have been.
“Second wave?”…Ha!
It’s that twelfth wave that’s the real troublemaker.
Welcome to the new tyranny.
Is this the same clown who,six weeks ago,promised 30.5 million deaths from the Wuhan Flu?
We’re Doomed!
Considering the first round was about as deadly as the flu, becoming more deadlier would not be a great stretch.
That said, I am calling BS on the threat.
Absolutely. CDC are socialist scum and liars.
Of course the second wave will peak right around Election Day.
I may never be able to leave my Virginia based crawl space...
Efing Liberals. WTH are you brain dead morons thinking???
Oh, never mind....
This Radical Rat is openly fear-mongering now to assist his political partners.
Where are the Rats who might channel FDR? “There is nothing to fear but fear itself.”
I guess they are busy filling out applications for employment with the federal government. . . .
Wouldn’t there also be antibodies buildup from the supposedly widespread infections in allegedly millions of asymptomatic people?
about as deadly as the flu....but remember there was a vaccine for the flu so this is LESS, MUCH LESS, deadlier than the flu.
And I’m sure the second wave will conveniently happen just before the election this November.
How much money has Dr. Robert Redfield GIVEN to DEMOCRATS??? Or how much money has DEMOCRATS given to HIM??
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