Infectious disease expert Michael Osterholm on Monday contradicted President Donald Trump’s fanciful claim that the U.S. will soon be in “very good shape” with the coronavirus pandemic, instead predicting “an explosion” in new cases starting next month. The column argued the U.S. needs another lockdown to slow the spread of the virus. “We believe the choice is clear,” Osterholm and Kashkari wrote. But we’re a long way from there right now,” Osterholm and Kashkari acknowledged. “The imperative for this is clear because as a nation what we have done so far hasn’t worked.”Check out Osterholm and Kashkari’s op-ed here.

Source: Huffington Post August 11, 2020 07:30 UTC