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Coronavirus could have a deadlier second wave later this year, CDC director warns

Coronavirus could have a deadlier second wave later this year, CDC director warns
By Vandana Rambaran
Fox News

The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is warning that a second wave of coronavirus could coincide with the start of flu season, proving to be even more devastating than the enduring COVID-19 pandemic.

CDC Director Robert Redfield told The Washington Post in an interview Tuesday that the nation should be cautious even as some states attempt to reopen their economies in the coming weeks and continue to practice social distancing measures to mitigate the spread of the virus.

Redfield stressed that the practice has had “an enormous impact" on containing the outbreak, but said Americans need to plan ahead and consider getting a flu shot in the summer so that when winter comes, hospitals are not once again overburdened.

He added that the precaution “may allow there to be a hospital bed available for your mother or grandmother that may get coronavirus.”

The coronavirus pandemic has overcrowded hospitals around the world and across the country, taxed the capacity of morgues and exposed the shortage of ventilators and protective equipment for health care workers and others on the front lines of the virus.

Redfield said that in order to avoid a repeat of the horrors of this pandemic, which has killed 43,630 people and infected 804,194 others in the U.S. alone, the CDC is beefing up the workforce that is dealing with public health issues to accommodate and adequately plan for a second onslaught.

The agency plans to add an additional 650 personnel to the already existing 500 staff members across the nation to “substantially augment” the public health response when all of the states begin to roll back stay-at-home restrictions and have people reenter the workforce and resume daily life.

Still, more workers are needed and the CDC is weighing utilizing field workers intended for the Census Bureau -- which suspended operations until May due to the coronavirus outbreak -- as well as the Peace Corps and AmeriCorps to establish "an alternative workforce," it said.


Beijing city shuts down gyms again as fears rise over a second wave of coronavirus

Beijing city shuts down gyms again as fears rise over a second wave of coronavirus
By Evelyn Cheng

Gyms in China’s capital city of Beijing were forced to close again over the weekend, adding pressure to an industry that’s already seen the collapse of thousands of fitness businesses nationwide.

The coronavirus, which emerged late last year in the Chinese city of Wuhan, has swept across the country and only started slowing down in early March. That allowed some fitness centers — which have essentially shut down since late January — to re-open in the last few weeks. But a new case of Covid-19 in Beijing last week increased concerns about a resurgence of the virus, turning a major business and residential district into the highest-risk region in the country.

Already, more than 200 fitness businesses shuttered in Beijing in the first quarter, according to analysis from Qichacha, which runs a Chinese business information database.

Nationwide, the data showed China’s ballooning fitness industry got hit so hard by the coronavirus that 6,969 businesses in the field dissolved or suspended operations in the first three months of this year — far more than the 4,632 in all of 2015. There were 955,000 fitness companies in operation across China as of April 17, according to Qichacha.

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Coronavirus US Death Toll Hits 45,226; CDC Warns Second Wave Of COVID-19 Will Be Deadlier

Coronavirus US Death Toll Hits 45,226; CDC Warns Second Wave Of COVID-19 Will Be Deadlier
By Arthur Villasanta

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirms COVID-19 may return in a "second wave" during this year's flu season, which starts October.

It warns the COVID-19 comeback might be as virulent as its first onslaught, which began when CDC confirmed the first U.S. case of the coronavirus on January 21. But more frightening will be the massive combined casualty tolls that will be inflicted by the simultaneous influenza and second wave COVID-19 outbreaks.

CDC estimates this year's flu season has caused anywhere from 24,000 to 62,000 deaths, 39 million to 56 million illnesses and from 410,000 to 740,000 hospitalizations for the period October 1, 2019 through April 4.

The toll inflicted by COVID-19 on Americans has been much higher in less than four months. The U.S. is reporting 817,006 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 45,226 deaths, as of 23:32 GMT (7:32 pm ET, Tuesday), according to Worldometer. The case toll is up more than 24,200 compared to the day before while there were more than 2,700 additional deaths compared to Monday. There were more than 2.6 million cases and 177,000 deaths worldwide on Tuesday evening.

CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield warned of COVID-19's horrific return in an interview with The Washington Post.

“There’s a possibility that the assault of the virus on our nation next winter will actually be even more difficult than the one we just went through,” said Dr. Redfield.

“And when I’ve said this to others, they kind of put their head back, they don’t understand what I mean. We’re going to have the flu epidemic and the coronavirus epidemic at the same time."

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US will have second wave of coronavirus with more difficult ramifications

COVID-19 crisis: US will have second wave of coronavirus with more difficult ramifications, says health official
PTI

A second wave of the novel coronavirus will hit the US later this year with even more difficult ramifications than the current COVID-19 crisis that has claimed more than 45,000 lives and infected over 824,000 people in the country, a top American health official has warned.

Center for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield told The Washington Post that the US will have the flu epidemic and the coronavirus epidemic at the same time.

If the first wave of the coronavirus outbreak and the flu season had peaked at the same time, it could have been "really, really difficult in terms of health capacity," he said.

Luckily, the arrival of the novel coronavirus in the United States came as the regular flu season was waning, he said.

"There’s a possibility that the assault of the virus on our nation next winter will actually be even more difficult than the one we just went through," Redfield told the daily.

"We’re going to have the flu epidemic and the coronavirus epidemic at the same time," he said, adding that having two simultaneous respiratory outbreaks would put unimaginable strain on the health-care system.

The White House emphasised on continuing with preventive measures to fight the coronavirus and increased testing.

"We were very clear in the guidelines that we believe we can monitor, again, monitor communities at the community level by using the influenza-like illness and the syndromic respiratory and gastrointestinal temp components of this particular virus," Dr Deborah Brix, member of the White House Task Force on Coronavirus told reporters when asked about the second wave.

"Obviously, when we have flu, and were working on an algorithm that you test for flu and then you test for COVID-19 and making sure that we are building the testing capacity to be able to do that because I think it’s very important that you’re going to be able – on the surface, a patient, when they come in with early flu and early COVID-19 can look very close to identical," she said.

There is need to have testing in place to be able to separate and ensure those patients receive the best treatment, Brix said.

"We are also hoping by that time we have additional treatment options for people with COVID-19 so that there will be additional treatment available in the fall," she said.

Responding to a question, Brix said that the situation could be pretty bad if the second wave of coronavirus hits the country in the winter.

"When you see what has happened in New York, that was very bad. I believe that we’ll have early warning signals both from our surveillance that we been talking about in these on the vulnerable populations," she said.

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CDC director warns second wave of coronavirus could be even worse

CDC director warns second wave of coronavirus could be even worse
By Mike Murphy

Robert Redfield says winter could bring simultaneous flu, COVID-19 outbreaks, overwhelming hospitals

That’s what Robert Redfield, director of the CDC, told the Washington Post in an interview published Tuesday.

Next winter, “we’re going to have the flu epidemic and the coronavirus epidemic at the same time,” he told the Post, likely putting massive pressure on America’s health-care system.

Redfield said the combination of coronavirus and seasonal flu could overwhelm hospitals and again create shortages in medical equipment and hospital beds.

He stressed the importance of getting a flu shot in the fall in order to keep the number of hospitalizations down, and said the U.S. dodged a bullet by the COVID-19 pandemic striking after last winter’s flu season had peaked. Had they occurred at the same time, “it could have been really, really, really, really difficult in terms of health capacity,” he told the Post.

Redfield said states and the federal government should use the coming months to scale up the country’s testing capacity, and that people should maintain social distancing even after the current restrictions are lifted.

More than 800,000 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the U.S., as of Tuesday, with more than 43,000 deaths.

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