“The economic recovery depends on people believing that the public health issue has been addressed.”
As a doctor and public health professional, let me be clear: the public health issue has not yet been addressed.
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We locked down to slow spread, help hospitals manage case loads, and build up public health infrastructure.
Around the USA, at minimum, we need:
-better systems in place to detect new outbreaks
-to be testing at much higher scale
-high filtrate masks at a population level
-better central isolation options
-massive scale-up of tracing, including a digital tracing infrastructure