sharon sanders
Editor-in-Chief & President
Again, FluTrackers is not taking any political position. The electoral college has not voted so there is no final conclusion to who is going to be the president in the next four year term. However, on the chance that the next president may be Biden, we are covering his pandemic team.
Biden coronavirus task force doctor says 4 to 6 week lockdown could control the pandemic
Thu, November 12, 2020, 9:16 AM EST?3 min read
As the U.S. continues to set new daily record highs of coronavirus cases, at least one doctor on President-elect Joe Biden’s coronavirus task force is floating the idea of shutting down businesses in a lockdown that could last four to six weeks to control the spread of the pandemic.
In a Wednesday interview with Yahoo Finance Live, Dr. Michael Osterholm, who currently serves as director of the Center of Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, stressed that the country is in a position to pay its workers to stay home.
“We could pay for a package right now to cover all of the lost wages for individual workers, for losses to small companies, to medium-sized companies or city, state, county governments. We could do all of that,” he said. “If we did that, then we could lock down for four to six weeks and if we did that, we could drive the numbers down.”
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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bide...own-could-control-the-pandemic-141642095.html
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A member of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden’s coronavirus task force said Thursday she doesn’t view a nationwide lock down as necessary. C?line Gounder’s comments backed away from comments by epidemiologist Michael Osterholm a day earlier.
“With all due respect to Dr. Osterholm, that doesn’t necessarily represent the entire advisory board or what the Biden-Harris transition team is planning to do,” Gounder said on CNN. She said that “perhaps there are some places where ou need to be more draconian, but I really don’t think that’s a national policy.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...progresses-n-y-restaurant-curfew-virus-update
Biden coronavirus task force doctor says 4 to 6 week lockdown could control the pandemic
Thu, November 12, 2020, 9:16 AM EST?3 min read
As the U.S. continues to set new daily record highs of coronavirus cases, at least one doctor on President-elect Joe Biden’s coronavirus task force is floating the idea of shutting down businesses in a lockdown that could last four to six weeks to control the spread of the pandemic.
In a Wednesday interview with Yahoo Finance Live, Dr. Michael Osterholm, who currently serves as director of the Center of Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, stressed that the country is in a position to pay its workers to stay home.
“We could pay for a package right now to cover all of the lost wages for individual workers, for losses to small companies, to medium-sized companies or city, state, county governments. We could do all of that,” he said. “If we did that, then we could lock down for four to six weeks and if we did that, we could drive the numbers down.”
more...
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bide...own-could-control-the-pandemic-141642095.html
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A member of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden’s coronavirus task force said Thursday she doesn’t view a nationwide lock down as necessary. C?line Gounder’s comments backed away from comments by epidemiologist Michael Osterholm a day earlier.
“With all due respect to Dr. Osterholm, that doesn’t necessarily represent the entire advisory board or what the Biden-Harris transition team is planning to do,” Gounder said on CNN. She said that “perhaps there are some places where ou need to be more draconian, but I really don’t think that’s a national policy.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...progresses-n-y-restaurant-curfew-virus-update