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| Topic | CDC chief says Northerners heading South for vacation may be to blame for surge |
| MelbuFrahma4 07/14/20 11:03:41 PM #1: | https://tinyurl.com/y8x9u97h The current surge in coronavirus cases across the American South may have been caused by Northerners who traveled South for vacation around Memorial Day, said Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. If you look at the South, everything happened around June 12 to June 16. It all simultaneously kind of popped, he said in an interview Tuesday with Dr. Howard Bauchner of The Journal of the American Medical Association. Independent of state reopening plans, were of the view that there was something else that was the driver. Maybe the Memorial Day, not weekend, but the Memorial Day week, where a lot of Northerners decided to go South for vacations. Because the South hadnt yet experienced large outbreaks like the Northeast, many Southern states and cities reopened bars and gyms early and didnt require people to wear masks or to practice social distancing that seriously, Redfield said. Once the virus was introduced in those areas, that could have allowed it to spread quickly. --- "We'll never see Day-Lewis and Kubrick, or Kurosawa and Eastwood, but we have seen Bale and Nolan, a cinematic dream pairing come to life!" ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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