Experts: We're still in the first wave of pandemic, we don't have it under control.

“Pandemia COVID-19, in the United States, is affecting different areas across the country in different ways and at different times”,- she explains. So, as far as forecasting that the cases would fall in summer and a second “ ” would come in autumn, that's not what's happening.

But how do experts predict this wave in America, but even outside?

Anne Liu, MD, immunologist and medicine of infectious diseases with “Stanford Health Care” said in a recent interview, that the concept of a second wave assumes there was a first clean “val”, but cannot say we are clear from the first wave.

Janet Baseman, PhD, MPH, associate dean at the School of Public Health and professor of epidemiology at the University of Washington, points out that we don't have the virus yet under control and the rise of cases in countries such as Florida means the first wave is not over.

We're really worried about places like Texas and Florida, when we see numbers increase and expand in hospitals. And this is not the second wave”, - Dr. Liu.

Besides the fact that respiratory viruss tend to reduce summer infection, which is not happening with COVID-19 ] discussions on a second wave of autumn were initiated by the fact that people spend more time inside. And the fact that schools will open again and we will have a high risk, Dr. Baseman, underlining the fact that the first “is not under control. We're not at the end of a curve, under which we study our lower case and levels”.

Both doctors pointed out that there are no strict measures throughout America.

“If you look at the graphs of new cases for other countries, where measures are more uniformly applied, there are more landings and ups”, - Dr. Liu. There's a cross-turning graph in France and Italy, according to data collected by the New York Times “The New York Times”, but in the U.S. case graph, the curve continues to rise.

Despite government recommendations for the opening of America in several phases, “ato, which looks like opening and closing phases, are actually quite different throughout the country”, Dr. Baseman. And politics are completely different. There is no unique national approach to measures taken or rules. ”

Experts think that countries like Florida -- spreading as much as possible since May -- have a direct connection with the rise in COVID-19 cases, writes Class.

What can we do?

Keep defending yourselves, says Dr. Baseman: “but none of these public health measures solves our problem. No rule two meters away, no mask rule, no rule of activity outside more than inside or washing hands. None of this will protect people from being infected”. Of course, practice it all. Wash your hands, distance yourself physically from people, and wear masks when you're in public, especially in places filled with people and weak ventilation.

Dr. Baseman stresses once again the CDC director's statement in mid-July on universal camouflage throughout the United States, taking into account the fact that masks have proved to help alleviate the spread of the virus. The mask, however, has been politicised, she said, so I don't know if universal camouflage can be achieved throughout the country.

I think it's still worth following these measures, but it's really important to have a strategy to protect”.