'A recipe for disaster': US health official says of Americans ignoring coronavirus advice

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WASHINGTON (REUTERS) - A spike in US coronavirus infections is fuelled in large part by people ignoring public health guidelines to keep their distance and wear masks, the government's top infectious disease official said.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

WASHINGTON - A spike in US coronavirus infections is fuelled in large part by people ignoring public health guidelines to keep their distance and wear masks, the government's top infectious disease official said.

"Now we're seeing the consequences of community spread, which is even more difficult to contain than spread in a well-known physical location like a prison or nursing home or meatpacking place," Dr Fauci told the cable channel in the interview, which was recorded on Friday. California ordered some bars to close on Sunday, the first major rollback of efforts to reopen the economy in the most populous US state, following Texas and Florida ordering the closure of all their bars on Friday. Arizona and Georgia are among 15 states that had record increases in cases last week.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

 

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