“That’s a cause for celebration, not the media’s fear mongering.”Many medical experts found the headline of the piece, which declared there is no second wave of the virus, to be most troubling. “We still haven’t finished the first wave,” said Amesh Adalja, an infectious-disease expert at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. The virus has not been around long enough for scientists to know definitively whether a second wave will be deadlier than the first. During the 1918 flu pandemic, the first wave of the virus appeared in March and reported cases dropped during the summer months. But a second wave of that virus that began in September was far more deadly than the first wave.

Source: Washington Post June 19, 2020 22:18 UTC