The new White House COVID response coordinator is calling for calm as cases rise, driven by the BA.2 variant. | via NPR
starting April 18 after cases rose 50% in the previous 10 days, making it the first city in the country to announce the move.
When asked if he envisioned a wider return to pandemic restrictions, Jha said local governments had a big role to play. "These are decisions that should always be made on a local level, so I liked that feature of what Philadelphia is doing," Jha said."[These decisions] should be driven really, by the realities on the ground."While trust in federal and state government varies across the country, Jha says "people generally tend to have a very strong relationship with their local government.", Jha said it was important for people to remember that the pandemic wasn't over.
"We are likely to see surges in the future. We may get another variant, we don't know," Jha said."That's got to be the strategy. Not so much predicting exactly what's going to happen when, but preparing for any eventuality that Mother Nature throws at us.
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