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The U.S. needs a unified approach to tackle rising coronavirus cases, infectious disease expert says - CNBC

The U.S. needs a unified approach to tackle rising coronavirus cases, infectious disease expert says - CNBC

The U.S. needs a unified approach to tackle rising coronavirus cases, infectious disease expert says - CNBC
Jul 06, 2020 1 min, 1 sec

The United States needs a unified approach to tackle the rising cases of coronavirus infection and people should not get a false sense of security that a vaccine is just around the corner, infectious disease experts said on Monday. .

"What we are seeing, certainly, is this virus (is) spreading across the states like a wildfire," said Joshua Barocas, an assistant professor of medicine at Boston University and an infectious diseases physician at the Boston Medical Center.

He said the surge in places like Florida and Texas should serve as a warning to other states, such as New Jersey or Massachusetts, where the infection spread appears to have slowed for now. ?

has the highest number of reported cases and death toll in the world — more than 2.8 million people have been infected and close to 130,000 people have died from Covid-19.

"We will be contending with this virus for a long time without a vaccine and I don't want people to get a false sense of security that a vaccine is just around the corner even though we are making great strides towards one," Adalja added

Globally more than 11.4 million people have been infected and over half-a-million have died, according to Hopkins data. 

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