Q&A: Infectious Disease Dr. Murthy: 'We Are Not Out of the Woods Yet'

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'It’s important that we don’t ease up on the protective measures,' says Dr. Rekha Murthy, infection prevention specialist at CedarsSinai 'We are not out of the woods. This is still a crucial time.'

are mild or asymptomatic. How effective are these symptom-based strategies if so many carriers aren’t showing symptoms?Eighty percent of people have mild to moderate illness. But the number of people if you test randomly carrying it seems to be very, very low—and it seems to depend on where you are. For example, in the height in the New York experience, maybe more people weren’t carrying it, but they were having a tremendous amount of community transmission.

And that’s important information to educate our public and our clinicians—so the CDC has expanded some of those symptoms. : Could someone that is infected could go undetected into work, after passing these thresholds being set up in businesses that are reopening? Or are you saying thatThere are definitely people with mild symptoms that may not recognize that they may have COVID—but reality is our new norm is going to require social distancing, physical distancing.

So absolutely, there can be people who have it transiently before they become ill. That’s the reason why the distancing and the masking and the hygiene are all so critical.

It’s definitely important, on a national and international scale, to see that the information in science is moving, in terms of the response and scientific development with the vaccines and therapeutics. Also, the recognition of health care workers as really being people who are dedicated to their jobs is really coming to the forefront. I think it’s been a really long time since there was that kind of awareness.

 

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