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US Nowhere Near Ready for Business as Usual, Former CDC Head Says

Carol Pearson

   Our new normal will not be life as we knew it before the coronavirus
   traveled around the world.

   That is what Dr. Tom Frieden said April 13 in a Zoom remote event
   sponsored by STAT, a news publication about health.

   Frieden is head of Resolve to Save Lives, a global public health
   initiative. He is also the former director of the U.S. Centers for
   Disease Control and Prevention.

   In a wide-ranging discussion, he compared fighting the coronavirus to
   fighting a global war. He described the virus as an infectious and
   deadly enemy and said the more we learn about it, the more fearsome it
   appears.

   Frieden warned that we are at least a year, perhaps many years, away
   from having a vaccine.

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