At this point, there are too many new coronavirus infections occurring too quickly for underfunded public health departments to effectively use testing and contact tracing, some scientists say. They say the U.S. needs lockdowns to bring case numbers down.
"It's just this massive effort," he says."It's just not feasible."
"I think it's the right response when you have a nearly controlled epidemic and you're trying to mop up the spills. But we're not there in most places," says Marc Lipsitch, a professor of epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health."In many places, I think, we're engaging in collective wishful thinking."
"It's voluntary. And they have other things to do," Engel says."They may be essential workers. They may need to get to work. Life takes over.""Given our basic failure to fix the gaps in testing and the bottlenecks, that really puts us on a path where there is no viable alternative beyond shutdowns," says Jennifer Nuzzo, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.
"I do really worry about forcing an entire state or country to retreat to our homes for extended periods. These are harmful measures in themselves," Nuzzo says.
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