There where reports of this last week…
Those two countries where between and month and 6 weeks ahead of America with the virus…
For America?
We’ll get thru this…
But what will the economy be like afterwards?
Top infections disease official Anthony Fauci said Sunday that after strict containment and mitigation, China’s novel coronavirus outbreak is “coming down right now.”
On ABC’s “This Week,” the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said it takes several weeks to a few months for the outbreak to dwindle, pointing to China and South Korea as examples.
China, where COVID-19 first set off alarms, passed through the worst, Fauci said. According to a Johns Hopkins University database, the country has had the bulk of the cases and fatalities: nearly 81,000 confirmed cases and more than 3,200 deaths.
Recently, China reported just 11 new cases — minuscule compared to the numbers it used to see, Fauci said. South Korea’s coronavirus spread is also starting to flatten.
“If you look at that bracket, all of that was a couple of months, a month and a half for China,” he said Sunday. “The way you interfere with that … depends on the effectiveness in which you do the kinds of controls that we’ve been talking about, the containment and the mitigation.”
China, Fauci added, dramatically practiced “social distancing” when officials shut down the country. Now, all eyes are on what happens as people resume normal life.
“It’s over for now and hopefully for good,” Fauci said. “As they start getting back to normal personal interaction, I hope we don’t see the second blip, but it’s possible.”…