The coronavirus is spreading too rapidly and too broadly for the U.S. to bring it under control, Dr. Anne Schuchat, principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Monday.<\/p>\n
The U.S. has set records for daily new infections in recent days as outbreaks surge mostly across the South and West. The recent spike in new cases has outpaced daily infections in April when the virus rocked Washington state and the northeast, and when public officials thought the outbreak was hitting its peak in the U.S.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re not in the situation of New Zealand or Singapore or Korea where a new case is rapidly identified and all the contacts are traced and people are isolated who are sick and people who are exposed are quarantined and they can keep things under control,\u201d she said in an interview with The Journal of the American Medical Association\u2019s Dr. Howard Bauchner. \u201cWe have way too much virus across the country for that right now, so it\u2019s very discouraging.\u201d<\/p>\n
Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n Fighting Covid was always going to be hard. There’s much we can do. We must support contact tracing with innovative methods; double down on actions at high risk settings like food facilities, congregate settings; educate the public on reducing Covid risk. https:\/\/t.co\/b20FuujcXI<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD) June 30, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n