Rising Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations underscore the long road ahead

Rising Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations underscore the long road ahead

Rising US tide worries scientists

Despite the United States tallying about 20,000 new COVID-19 cases each day, and a death toll of more than 117,000, experts are concerned that people are becoming complacent about the disease. Public-health researchers are pondering which mitigation measures, from complete lockdown to ‘business as usual’, could be put in place to protect the most vulnerable people. “It’s still not entirely clear to me whether there’s the political and social will that could sustain another round of community lockdown,” says infectious-disease researcher and physician Yonatan Grad. “So if not, what are we going to do?”
STAT | 12 min read