Public health expert: US 'near the end of the beginning' of pandemic
By Zack Budryk - 04/26/20 10:08 AM EDT
Tom Inglesby, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, said Sunday that the U.S. was likely at the “end of the beginning†of the coronavirus pandemic but said Vice President Pence’s prediction of reaching the end stages of the crisis by Memorial Day was overly optimistic.
“I would say we are maybe near the end of the beginning of the pandemic in this country … we have a plateau in new cases per day. Unfortunately, it’s a very high plateau,†Inglesby told Fox News’ Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday.†“We are not out of the woods by any means but at least we’ve reached a stable number of new infections.â€
Asked by Wallace about Pence’s Memorial Day prediction, Inglesby was skeptical.
“If you go state by state you see that in about half of the country the numbers are still rising day to day, about another third there seems to be a leveling off and in a minority of the country the numbers are going down day by day … I don’t think it’s likely we will be in that position by Memorial Day.â€
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