1/ I'm very worried that we don't have a clear strategy for #COVID19 response
We need to clearly define when the public health goal is containment-trying to keep the virus from circulating- and when the goal shifts to mitigation-working to reduce the peak impact of the outbreak
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2/ Let me first voice my tremendous respect for the public health experts at the
@CDCgov & state/local governments I'm proud to have worked as a CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer, and I never had smarter, harder working colleagues than during my 12 yrs at@nycHealthy9 replies 70 retweets 636 likesShow this thread
So who dropped the ball on this? The CDC seems to have wasted the entire two months, while everybody else had their heads in the sand. The failure to buy PPE in Jan and create additional production capacity for it, and for medical equipment will kill many extra people.
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