Serology testing is now supporting these assumptions. Aria Bendix President While a vaccine and treatments are developed, strong actions must be taken. For the next two weeks or so, governments mostly sold the idea of forced social distancing as a measure to flatten the curve and the phrase began appearing everywhere in social media, media publications and government announcements. Suck it up, do your share, so that therell be a lot more life to live yet after this period. Data is a real-time snapshot *Data is delayed at least 15 minutes. Hes not convinced that people in the United States comprehend whats coming. President Trump declared a National Emergency in response to the Coronavirus on Friday, freeing up more than $42 billion in resources for states and localities. If a Wuhan-like outbreak were to take place in a U.S. city, even with strong social distancing and contact tracing protocols as strict as the Wuhan lockdown, hospitalization and ICU needs from COVID-19 patients alone may exceed current capacity, they wrote. 2022 NewsWars One public-health expert said social distancing should be enforced until a vaccine is developed in 12 to 18 months. More importantly, we saw an increase in rhetoric that specifically rejected the idea of avoiding infection. Just on the wrong axis. "Simply put, 15 days is not enough to address so much of what we were facing in March 2020 and this plan really reveals an administration and national plan that was quite superficial in response," Popescu said in an email. This Project is supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). President Trump continues to cut through every piece of unnecessary Washington red tape that may hinder response efforts, and he is continuing to make every Federal resource available to those who need it. pic.twitter.com/wHYFL5r1wj, Matt Agorist (@MattAgorist) December 26, 2021. What happened after that? Tuesday marked one year since President Donald Trump announced his administration's "15 days to slow the spread" campaign, asking Americans to stay home for about two weeks in an effort to contain the coronavirus. To any in doubt about compliance : everyone must take this pandemic event seriously, and each and everyone needs to take responsibility of all the action needed to curb spread. Even if we are not headed to zero transmission, any cases that we can prevent and any transmission that we can avoid are going to have enormous impact, she said. When Governments Switched Their Story from Flatten the The U.S., compared to the big countries of Western Europe, did flatten the curve. Schools should be utilizing virtual classrooms. But the reality is that with state and local laboratories in the country still getting up to speed with how to test for this infection, the full extent of spread is not known. Surgeon General (March 2020). But the quarantines, unprecedented in modern times, appear to have prevented explosive outbreaks from occurring in cities outside of Hubei province, where Wuhan is located. Caitlin Rivers, an assistant professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, said any lessening of spread will help health systems remain functional. 1600 Daily is the White Houses evening newsletter. Two weeks to flatten the curve turned into months of restrictions, which have turned into nearly 365 days of mask-wearing, hand-washing and worries about
