Is it safe to shop and eat out yet? We assess the risk
LA TimesIn most parts of the United States, you can now grab a drink with your friends at a bar, eat inside a restaurant, get your hair washed and cut in a salon, and try on clothes in a store. “It’s still the same virus that has caused an average of 1,000 U.S. deaths a day and 4,000 around the world,” said Dr. Tom Inglesby, director of the Center for Health Security at Johns Hopkins University. “I would say it’s a lot safer,” said Gerardo Chowell, a professor of mathematical epidemiology at Georgia State University. “We didn’t eliminate the virus, but we pumped the brakes on it,” said Dr. Armand Dorian, chief medical officer for Verdugo Hills Hospital of USC in Glendale. “Three years from now we’ll look back at this treatment and say it was so primitive, but it is massive leaps from where we were a few months ago,” Dorian said.
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