WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. authorities are not yet seeing spikes in coronavirus cases in places that are reopening but it was still too early to determine such trends, health secretary Alex Azar said on Sunday.
“We are seeing that in places that are opening, we’re not seeing this spike in cases,” Azar said on CNN’s “State of the Union” program. “We still see spikes in some areas that are, in fact, closed.”
However, Azar said identifying and reporting new cases takes time. A critical part of reopening will be surveillance of flu-like symptoms in the population and other hospital admissions data, as well as testing of asymptomatic individuals, he said.
“It’s still early days,” Azar cautioned in an interview with CBS’ “Face the Nation.” He said data will take some time to come in from states that reopened early such as Georgia and Florida.
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More proof the whole economy killing shutdown was completely unnecessary and history will show, the dumbest thing ever done by any government.
See Hogan, so what's the hold up?????
100% correct 2:15
Just wait a fews weeks FOOL & Watch the Numbers go UUUUP !!!
Sec Azar knows the chances of a spike is next to nothing but just like all intelligent people do covers his a$$ on the very very slim chance something changes.
"Anonymous said...
Just wait a fews weeks FOOL & Watch the Numbers go UUUUP !!!
May 18, 2020 at 3:25 PM"
You just wait a few week and when you are proved wrong make sure to come around so we can all say Told You So
Untrue. Today Texas had their highest increase since they began tracking. They reopened a week ago...
It was necessary to keep the Fed Bankers in power. Read about the 2019 Repo Market bailout. Listen to: Jim Sinclair, Paul C Roberts, Econ Von Greyerz, Eric King
Educate yourselves!
Yes, 7:04, I expect an uptick on reopening, we all do. But it will never fill hospitals to overflowing because we did what we did voluntarily for a couple of weeks. We now have herd immunity. I got it in mid January was down for 2.5 days and am now immune and cannot carry it to others. With a 99.6% survival rate so far, I think we'll most all be okay. Let's all get immune. The vaccine is 18 months out on a virus that has already morphed over 30 times since it was released. Finding a vaccine in 18 months is equal to finding a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
You go chase rainbows, we all have work to get back to.
3:25 : That's what you said when thousands of New Yorkers sheltered in Florida, remember?
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