Update on Coronavirus News: Disease Alert Global
Coronavirus outbreak live updates: With crowded hospitals, no medicines as China wages 'tragic battle' with Covid
William Hanage associate professor of epidemiology, is among experts who think that Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker made the right decision in March 2020 in ordering non-essential businesses to shut down to stop the spread of the pandemic. If anything, Baker should have made the call sooner, he said. “A lot of people died in Massachusetts during that first surge, and not that many people needed to die,” he said.
Even as COVID-19 cases spike in the U.S., joseph allen associate professor of exposure assessment science and director of the healthy building program, said he doesn’t think people “should be forever masking and forever testing. That was part of the emergency of COVID.” Instead, he recommended that businesses upgrade their buildings’ ventilation and filtration systems and that people should stay home when they're sick.
Melvin J. and Geraldine L. Glimcher Associate Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, said that COVID has not yet been tamed into a common cold; SARS-CoV-2 till seems to spread more efficiently and more quickly than a cold, and it’s more likely to trigger severe disease or long-term illness.
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