As pandemic rages uncontrolled, CDC head warns of darker instances this fall

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If seasonal influenza roars again this fall whereas the COVID-19 pandemic continues to be raging, the mixed weight of the ailments might trigger US healthcare programs to break down, the top of the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention warned Tuesday.

The grim warning comes as COVID-19 is spreading uncontrolled in lots of areas of the nation, which is now seeing upwards of 60,000 new circumstances a day.

“I’m nervous,” CDC director Robert Redfield mentioned in a reside interview with Howard Bauchner, editor-in-chief of the medical journal JAMA. “I do suppose the autumn and the winter of 2020 and 2021 are going to be most likely one of the vital troublesome instances we’ve skilled in American public well being.”