Why The US Is Experiencing A COVID-19 Plateau

Why The US Is Experiencing A COVID-19 Plateau

NEW YORK, NY – JUNE 08: People wait for the train at Times Square during rush hour on the first day of phase one of the reopening after the coronavirus lockdown on June 8, 2020 in New York City. New York City enters phase one one hundred days after the first confirmed case of Covid-19. 400,000 people are expected to return to work. David Dee Delgado/Getty Images/AFP.

“The US is a large country both in geography and population, and the virus is at very different stages in different parts of the country,” Tom Frieden, a former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told AFP. To wit: the East Coast states of New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts accounted for about 50 percent of all cases until about a month or so ago — but now the geographic footprint of the US epidemic has shifted to the Midwest and southeast, including Florida.Another key problem, said Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins, is that the United States is still not doing enough testing, contact tracing and isolation.

“The United States has the largest epidemic in the world so obviously we need to do a lot more testing than any other country.”

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