“Pinning all our hopes on a vaccine that works immediately is not the right strategy,” Dr. William Haseltine, a former professor at Harvard University’s medical and public health schools, told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. Haseltine said a broad public health strategy is a better way to contain the spread of the virus along with the help… Read More: Pinning hopes on vaccine is not the right coronavirus strategy,… »
“Targeted action” is being taken against more than 100 local outbreaks of coronavirus every week, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said. Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Mr Hancock said increased testing meant officials could now be “targeted” in their response. His comments came after 73 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed at a farm in Herefordshire.… Read More: Coronavirus: More than 100 outbreaks tackled a week, says Matt… »
WASHINGTON — Dr. Deborah Birx, a member of the Trump administration’s White House task force on COVID-19, says experts have been surprised by the impact the virus has had on high-income and upper-middle-income countries. She says public health experts never thought that 80 percent of the cases and probably 90 percent of the deaths would… Read More: The Latest: Birx says rich nations caught off guard by… »
(Photo by Al Drago – Pool/Getty Images) Dr. Anthony Fauci says the United States is “not in total control” of the coronavirus pandemic and predicts the nation could eventually see 100,000 new COVID-19 cases a day. As of Monday, the U.S. averaged nearly 40,000 new cases daily over the past week, a 40% increase compared… Read More: Dr. Fauci says US coronavirus cases to reach ‘disturbing’ 100,000… »