Michael Osterholm, President Joe Biden’s top COVID-19 adviser on the 2020 campaign trail, is engaging in yet another round of fearmongering about the Wuhan virus in the United States despite his history of failed predictions.
“First of all, let me say that at this time, we really are in a Category 5 hurricane status with regard to the rest of the world,” Osterholm said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday. “At this point, we will see in the next two weeks the highest number of cases reported globally since the beginning of the pandemic. In terms of the United States, we’re just at the beginning of this surge. We haven’t even really begun to see it yet.”
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is not recommending travel at this time due to the rising number of COVID-19 cases in the country, which is due in part to the presence of more highly transmissible variants.There is now a race to administer as many vaccines as quickly as possible in order to stop a fourth surge in coronavirus cases.On Saturday, the United States hit a record by administering 4 million COVID-19 vaccine doses in a single day.In addition, nearly one in four American adults are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus. We are vaccinating at a rate of 3 million people on average every day, said CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky.Still, some infectious disease experts are skeptical about those figures and whether that would even be enough to stop a fourth surge. I m worried about that surge. That 3 million doses is very hopeful, said Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health. We are not going to have enough vaccine, with
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Health Officials Split on Rapid COVID Tests as Admission Tickets
Spectators wait in a security line outside Yankee Stadium before an opening day baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays on April 1. Schools, businesses and sports and entertainment venues are considering rapid COVID-19 tests as a requirement for entry.
John Minchillo
The Associated Press
Epidemiologists and other public health experts are debating whether to use rapid COVID-19 tests as admission tickets to schools, businesses and entertainment and sports venues.
Even with the quickening pace of vaccinations, it will be months before all Americans who want COVID-19 vaccines receive them. As a result, testing could become ubiquitous as a requirement for students, office workers, spectators and visitors seeking to gather indoors.
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