Terrific overview read, recapping a recent New York Academy of Sciences webinar.
Some good news:
“Over the next few days, we’re no longer going to see testing as the bottleneck that it was in the early phase,” she (Dr. Julie Gerberding, former head of CDC/current Merck exec) said.
Some less good news:
“It’s very important that we understand what we’re talking about today is a long haul,” he (Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of an infectious disease center at the University of Minnesota) said. He also cast doubt on the prospect that that the new coronavirus may decrease in prevalence as the weather warms, noting that the earlier coronavirus MERS emerged in the Middle East, in temperatures as high as 110°F.”
