{"id":24257,"date":"2020-04-22T13:22:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T07:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/u-s-will-have-second-wave-of-coronavirus-says-health-official\/"},"modified":"2020-04-22T13:22:46","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T07:52:46","slug":"u-s-will-have-second-wave-of-coronavirus-says-health-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=24257","title":{"rendered":"U.S. will have second wave of coronavirus, says health official"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If the first wave of the coronavirus outbreak and the flu season had peaked at the same time, it could have been \u201creally, really difficult in terms of health capacity,\u201d says CDC director.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

PTI<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A second wave of the novel coronavirus will hit the U.S. later this year with even more difficult ramifications than the current COVID-19 crisis that has claimed more than 45,000 lives and infected over 8,24,000 people in the country, a top American health official has warned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Center for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield told The Washington Post that the U.S. will have the flu epidemic and the coronavirus epidemic at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the first wave of the coronavirus outbreak and the flu season had peaked at the same time, it could have been \u201creally, really difficult in terms of health capacity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luckily, the arrival of the novel coronavirus in the United States came as the regular flu season was waning, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a possibility that the assault of the virus on our nation next winter will actually be even more difficult than the one we just went through,\u201d Mr. Redfield told the daily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to have the flu epidemic and the coronavirus epidemic at the same time,\u201d he said, adding that having two simultaneous respiratory outbreaks would put unimaginable strain on the health-care system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The White House emphasised on continuing with preventive measures to fight the coronavirus and increased testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe were very clear in the guidelines that we believe we can monitor, again, monitor communities at the community level by using the influenza-like illness and the syndromic respiratory and gastrointestinal temp components of this particular virus,\u201d Dr. Deborah Brix, member of the White House Task Force on Coronavirus told reporters when asked about the second wave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cObviously, when we have flu, and were working on an algorithm that you test for flu and then you test for COVID-19 and making sure that we are building the testing capacity to be able to do that because I think it\u2019s very important that you\u2019re going to be able \u2014 on the surface, a patient, when they come in with early flu and early COVID-19 can look very close to identical,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is need to have testing in place to be able to separate and ensure those patients receive the best treatment, Dr. Brix said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are also hoping by that time we have additional treatment options for people with COVID-19 so that there will be additional treatment available in the fall,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Responding to a question, Dr. Brix said that the situation could be pretty bad if the second wave of coronavirus hits the country in the winter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen you see what has happened in New York, that was very bad. I believe that we\u2019ll have early warning signals both from our surveillance that we been talking about in these on the vulnerable populations,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to continue that surveillance from now all the way through the fall to be able to give us that early warning signal. I think what we\u2019ve learned is how good Americans are about immediately reverting to all of those issues that they need to do in order to ensure that they are protected and their families,\u201d Dr. Brix said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If the first wave of the coronavirus outbreak and the flu season had peaked at the same time, it could have been \u201creally, really difficult in terms of health capacity,\u201d says CDC director. PTI A second wave of the novel coronavirus will hit the U.S. later this year with even more difficult ramifications than the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}