signalmankenneth
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It's over folks, Pence said so the corona virus is over?!! You can ditch those masks and social distancing too?!! Happy days are here again?
(CNN)Vice President Mike Pence, the leader of the administration's coronavirus task force, is publicly painting a rosy picture of the pandemic through his words and actions amid President Donald Trump's push to reopen the country and resume campaigning.
But despite the administration's efforts to declare the pandemic over, 18 states are currently experiencing an increase in cases. And health officials have implored Americans to heed task force guidelines -- including wearing a mask and social distancing -- to slow the spread, and a key model used by the White House is now projecting more than 200,000 deaths by October.
"We may be done with the pandemic, but the pandemic is not done with us," Dr. Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, said during a STAT Conversation on Tuesday.
"It makes sense why so many Americans are feeling like we're done, and they're feeling a certain sense of apathy," he said.
Jha said it boils down to three things.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/16/politics/mike-pence-coronavirus-reopen-campaign/index.html
(CNN)Vice President Mike Pence, the leader of the administration's coronavirus task force, is publicly painting a rosy picture of the pandemic through his words and actions amid President Donald Trump's push to reopen the country and resume campaigning.
But despite the administration's efforts to declare the pandemic over, 18 states are currently experiencing an increase in cases. And health officials have implored Americans to heed task force guidelines -- including wearing a mask and social distancing -- to slow the spread, and a key model used by the White House is now projecting more than 200,000 deaths by October.
"We may be done with the pandemic, but the pandemic is not done with us," Dr. Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, said during a STAT Conversation on Tuesday.
"It makes sense why so many Americans are feeling like we're done, and they're feeling a certain sense of apathy," he said.
Jha said it boils down to three things.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/16/politics/mike-pence-coronavirus-reopen-campaign/index.html
