COVID-19 will rage “like a forest fire” in a U.S. that has no clear plan to handle it and has fallen back to a dismissive, “pre-pandemic” attitude, a leading transmittable illness expert stated Sunday.
America’s leadership is unfocused, Dr. Michael Osterholm told Chuck Todd on NBC‘s “ Fulfill the Press,” unlike other parts of the world that remain alert against the pandemic.
The spread of COVID-19 is “like a forest fire,” alerted Osterholm, the director of the Center for Contagious Illness Research Study and Policy at the University of Minnesota.
” I do not think that this is going to decrease. I think that any place there is wood to burn, this fire is going to burn. And right now we have a lot of prone individuals,” he said.
” I do not see this slowing down through the summertime or into the fall.
Other nations have “done a much better task” of stopping the spread o