Posted on 06/24/2020 3:39:00 PM PDT by lightman
Gov. Tom Wolf said Wednesday he expects COVID-19 to surge again in Pennsylvania this fall. But he said preparations and lessons learned during months when the state was shut down may enable us to weather it without a repeat of the shut down.
The advantages if faced with a second wave include increased hospital preparedness and capacity, expanded testing and expanding contact tracing to find and isolate people who have been exposed. Wolf said Pennsylvania now has capacity for 16,000 tests per day -- more than the total tested in March -- and has nearly 600 contact tracers, with plans to add more.
“I think we are in a much better place,” he said. Still, he noted he can’t predict the future.
Wolf also said people and businesses now fully understand how to social distance and the need for it, as well as the need for things including staying home and getting tested if sick, frequent hand-washing and wearing a mask in public.
Wolf and Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine spoke during a visit to Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.
Both repeatedly stressed the need to wear face masks in public, and said it makes no sense that it has become a political issue of Democrats largely complying with the recommendation and many supporters of President Donald Trump dismissing the need.
Levine said “study after study” prove that wearing a mask can block some of the droplets from people who are carrying COVID-19 but feeling no symptoms, or who are in the early stage and not yet feeling sick. Scientists believe both groups can spread the disease through droplets released during coughing, sneezing, talking and breathing.
She said wearing masks is essential to getting through a second wave with minimal harm.
Wolf likened wearing a mask in public to obeying stop signs.
“Imagine if only liberals or only conservatives stopped at stop signs,” he said.
Wolf and Levine visited the medical center to stress the COVID-19 preparations that are in place against a resurgence and to thank the medical center staff for their work in caring for the sick and preventing spread.
Wolf said that based on a seven day rolling average Pennsylvania has the longest streak of declining cases in the country.
“All of you are on the front lines and all of you are responsible for that statistic I talked about,” he said, referring to the streak.
ZERO evidence that lockdowns/shutdowns slow the tranmission rates of the chinese virus nor have any impact on hospitalization rates
Mass rioting doesn't spread it but Trump rallies do!
Of course he does.
His subhuman Medical Creature is drooling over more TV face time.
That is precisely what he meant. And he’s preparing you for the next round of getting in the behind.
Each time this is repeated, as it will be, with the sheep taking it passively, it will get worse. Expect this sh*t every year with a new flu virus.
Oh STFU Tommy boy.
Should only kill about a half to three quarters of a million Americans, most of them older and Republican. Probably a really good strategy if one is intent on ensuring President Trump loses in a massive landslide.
Me? I’m thinking effective management of the spread combined with the President’s vaccine initiative (Operation Warp Speed) is a better plan. If a safe and effective vaccine can be announced before the election (even if roll-out takes a little longer), the public will (rightly) view the President as a hero whose leadership saved many, many lives.
That won't happen until there is a total crash and hyper inflation. The manipulators of the metals markets will continue to issue mega amounts of paper gold and silver to suppress the real physical market.
Gold and silver ETFs are nothing more than a mechanism for preventing true price discovery of the physical metals.
“Gov. Wolf predicts COVID-19 resurgence in fall, offers hope it won’t force new round of school and business closings”
He better hope so...for his own well bring.
Yep. A “stay home and shutter business” isn’t going to fly again.
So my gym and barbershop open this Friday, and probably close in 3-4 weeks...
He is deflecting from the senate hearings on 6/18 i believe. the senate gop site is set up by geeks not wonks.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=284421455945654&ref=watch_permalink there is a bombshell form the director of the umpc health system. I’m trying to put a cut of the testimony but the video is good on its own.
https://www.facebook.com/PASenateGOP/videos/284421455945654/
just prior to 31:20 the director explains his view in the pandemic and government response.
thank God covid will no longer exist after the first week of November....
try 58: or so sorry hard to get the locatin
Why have we stopped hearing about Sweden?
Is it because everyone is dead?
Sure. Who needs all those old people anyway?
The old can just stay home.
We are NOT all in this together.
I’m not in it with Washington, California, New York, Virginia, New Jersey or Minnesota. All have ceased being America.
I am still American
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