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Dr Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told ABC’s This Week that the level of infection in the US would not ‘all of a sudden turn around’. The nation’s top infectious disease expert said: ‘So clearly in the next few weeks we’re going to have the same sort of thing. And perhaps even two or three weeks down the line ... we may see a surge upon a surge.’
Dr. Megan Ranney, a Brown University emergency physician who has been treating Covid patients, said Sunday that political failures had brewed a disaster in the nation’s hospitals.
“We have been talking for months about the need for increased supplies of personal protective equipment, about the need for increased testing supplies, we still desperately need those,” Ranney said on CNN’s Newsroom.
Jeffrey Frankel is a professor at Harvard University’s John F Kennedy School of Government who served as a member of president Bill Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers. He writes for us this morning: Joe Biden will lead the US back to international cooperation
Biden did not campaign on international economic cooperation per se; US presidential candidates never do. But he has pledged to immediately reverse Trump’s monumentally short-sighted decisions to withdraw the US from the World Health Organization and the 2015 Paris climate agreement.
Pandemic diseases such as Covid-19 are a classic example of an international externality that individual governments can’t adequately address on their own. International cooperation is a far more effective way to investigate local disease outbreaks and warn of global dangers; coordinate research, development, production and distribution of vaccines or treatments; and agree on procedures for restricting or quarantining cross-border travellers. The WHO is not perfect, but it is obviously needed now.
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