Former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Tom Frieden said Sunday that the United States has been a “delay” in the fight opposed to the coronavirus pandemic, notably highlighting the lack of centralized information.
“I’ll be honest, we’re falling behind,” Frieden said in “Fox News Sunday.” “We are one of the countries in the world in terms of cumulative mortality rates, unlike many other countries with the highest mortality rates, ours continues to rise.”
“One of the things that worries me the most is that we’re not on the same wavelength,” he added, noting the inconsistency of the data on state websites. “All users in this country will be able to know very well what the threat is on my network and how well my network manages to reduce this threat so that my circle of relatives and I can be safer. Array.. we want to know things like the cases that were diagnosed today, how many of them were remote within 48 hours. »
“That’s how other countries are controlling this epidemic and we can do it here too, but we have to be on the same page, we have to be on the measures that matter, we have to make them public,” he said.
“The severity of COVID is similar to the severity of seasonal influenza for young people, yet that is the only component of the equation: what about the staff, teachers, other people in the homes of young people that these young people can at that time? Infect?” he added, noting the lack of clarity about young people’s ability to contract and spread the virus.
“Any network can open schools, the hardest component is opening and keeping them open, and only a network that controls COVID and opens schools will consciously be able to do so,” he added.
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