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Leaked CDC and FEMA plan warns of 'significant risk of resurgence of the virus' w/ phased reopening
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2020/04/15/daily-202-leaked-cdc-and-fema-plan-warns-of-significant-risk-of-resurgence-of-the-virus-with-phased-reopening/5e9688d288e0fa101a763033/
By James Hohmann
April 15 at 9:29 AM
with Mariana Alfaro
A draft national strategy to reopen the country in phases, developed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, emphasizes that even a cautious and phased approach “will entail a significant risk of resurgence of the virus.”
The internal document, obtained by The Washington Post, warns of a “large rebound curve” of novel coronavirus cases if mitigation efforts are relaxed too quickly before vaccines are developed and distributed or broad community immunity is achieved.
About 26,000 people have now died from the coronavirus in the United States, and more than 608,000 cases have been reported.
The framework lays out criteria that should be in place before a region can responsibly ease guidelines related to public gatherings: a “genuinely low” number of cases; a “well functioning” monitoring system capable of “promptly detecting” spikes of infections; a public health system able to react robustly to new cases and local health systems that have enough inpatient beds to rapidly scale up in the event of a surge in cases.
This would seem to necessitate ramping up testing and production of personal protective equipment at levels not currently being done.
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By James Hohmann
April 15 at 9:29 AM
with Mariana Alfaro
A draft national strategy to reopen the country in phases, developed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, emphasizes that even a cautious and phased approach “will entail a significant risk of resurgence of the virus.”
The internal document, obtained by The Washington Post, warns of a “large rebound curve” of novel coronavirus cases if mitigation efforts are relaxed too quickly before vaccines are developed and distributed or broad community immunity is achieved.
About 26,000 people have now died from the coronavirus in the United States, and more than 608,000 cases have been reported.
The framework lays out criteria that should be in place before a region can responsibly ease guidelines related to public gatherings: a “genuinely low” number of cases; a “well functioning” monitoring system capable of “promptly detecting” spikes of infections; a public health system able to react robustly to new cases and local health systems that have enough inpatient beds to rapidly scale up in the event of a surge in cases.
This would seem to necessitate ramping up testing and production of personal protective equipment at levels not currently being done.
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