Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, discusses Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plans to reopen the city on July 1 and what this could signal for the rest of the country.has begun to recede, just slightly, in the U.S.
"We will not see the kind of suffering and death we have seen over the holidays. I think we are in much better shape heading forward,” Jha told ABC’s"Good Morning America" Friday. The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, which conducts its own weekly forecast, called it"clear evidence that transmission is falling" and predicted the trend would continue.
Also, as the U.S. situation improves, the global situation is still tenuous. India is deteriorating and its health system broken by a massive outbreak this spring. Other countries too have struggled to contain outbreaks, making it more likely that as the virus spreads unchecked, new variants will form."This can happen in a number of countries, in any countries if we let our guard down.