How bad will the coronavirus epidemic get in the U.S.? Health experts weigh in
The rate of infection appears to have peaked in countries like China and South Korea, but experts urge caution.
“We don’t yet know whether we will see transmission surge again when people return to ‘normal life,’” says Dr. Steffanie Strathdee, Associate Dean of Global Health Sciences at UCSD and author of. “We also don’t know if people can become re-infected, or if people who appear to have recovered can still shed the virus,” infecting others even though they are well.
Closing schools, says Dr. Rupali Limaye, a scientist at JHU-SPH, is one such example. If parents have to work and can’t take care of their children, that may lead them to “finding alternative child care that might not be ideal,” increasing the risks of exposure to the disease in other ways. in a March 9 Twitter thread
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