The global picture has reaffirmed that covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, is not about to fade away. Health officials uniformly are urging the public to avoid complacency and instead maintain the precautions, such as mask-wearing and social distancing, that have been effective in limiting infections. The Madison and Dane County public health department said in an email that contact tracing and analysis of case trends suggest the campus outbreak has not seeded broader community spread. Parisi said he wanted university officials to realize their “experiment” had failed. “We must stop this spike in cases,” Jeff Zayach, executive director of Boulder County Public Health, said at a news briefing last week.

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