Experts are warning that traveling to spring break destinations like Florida and Texas could accelerate the spread of the more contagious U.K. COVID-19 variant.
U.S. COVID-19 death toll tops 520,000 as Dr. Fauci cautions against reopening too soon MarketWatch 3/5/2021
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The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus-borne illness COVID-19 climbed above 520,000 on Friday, as Dr. Anthony Fauci became the latest health expert to slam state officials for prematurely dropping restrictions on movement at a time when their case numbers remain high and their vaccine programs are making slow progress.
“I don’t know why they’re doing it but it’s certainly, from a public health standpoint, ill-advised,” Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told CNN’s Erin Burnett.
Before the mask mandate was lifted, this COVID-19 expert warned against the move
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Internationally renowned infectious disease expert Dr. Peter Hotez warned before the mask mandate was lifted that it should stay in place until more Texans were vaccinated.Yi-Chin Lee, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer Every time we start moving in the right direction, the Governor steps in and sets us back and makes all of our jobs harder. He minimizes the sacrifices of people and businesses. I just don t get it, Mayor Turner tweeted.
When it comes down to the brass tacks of science, should the mask mandate be lifted? Internationally renowned infectious disease expert and dean for the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, Dr. Peter Hotez, warned before the mask mandate was lifted that it should stay in place.
Developing ‘vaccine diplomacy,’ says Peter Hotez in his new book, is the key to ‘Preventing the Next Pandemic,’ as critical as any other international security threat.
Peter J. Hotez. Image: Agapito Sanchez, Baylor College of Medicine
‘Political Allegiances Are Defining Science’
A scientist, pediatrician, and global health advocate, author Peter J. Hotez, MD, PhD, couldn’t have had a better demonstration of what his new book is about if he’d orchestrated it, himself.
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Preventing the Next Pandemic: Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of Anti-Science was released today (March 2) by Johns Hopkins University Press, the Republican governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, abruptly announced that “It’s now time to open Texas 100 percent,” canceling that huge state’s masking requirement and allowing businesses to operate at full capacity.
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