In the United States, where the number of new coronavirus infectious diseases (corona19) is rapidly increasing by 20,000 people a day, a health official's diagnosis that the effect of 'social distance' began to appear faintly.
Anthony Pouch, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), affiliated with the National Institutes of Health, appeared on CNN on the 31st (local time) and said, "We are beginning to see the signs that it (acting a social distance) is actually relaxing." said.
The social distance limiting human contact seems to be effective in suppressing the spread of corona19.
The pouch manager still warned that the Corona 19 Pandemic situation is serious.
He said the United States has yet to improve in the number of patients in Corona19 and expects palliative efforts to slow patient growth.
"What we're starting to see now is just feeling," said the pouch director. "I don't want to put too much trust in it because I don't want to be overconfident."
"I started to see that the increase per day (patients) did not show a very steep increase," he added. "The possibility that the (increase curve) will slow down began to appear."
The pouch manager also said that if the second fashion of Corona 19 came to the United States, then it would be much better prepared.
"We will be much better prepared," said Pouch, although the second epidemic could come to America.
"If there really is a second epidemic, I don't think it's going to be as bad (as it is now) because there are some advantages to us," he said.
The director of the pouch was then told that treatments in the clinical trial phase could be used during the second epidemic and vaccines could be developed.
He also mentioned that he would be better equipped and better prepared.
"If the second epidemic really comes, we can say with some confidence that we will be much better prepared now," said Pouch.
"I think the possibility of a second epidemic is considerable given the prevalence and infectivity of this infectious disease," he said.
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U.S. health officials "society distance effects begin to fade"
2020-03-31T20:09:31.562Z
In the United States, where 20,000 new cases of coronavirus infections are increasing rapidly, health officials say that the effect of 'social distance' has begun to fade. Anthony Pouch appeared on the National Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research Institute CNN broadcast under the National Institutes of Health, and said, "We are beginning to see a sign that it actually has a relaxing effect."
Source: sbskr