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Uh…Why do you refer to the first wave in the past tense? We are still very much in the first wave. Dips in cases and hospitalizations occurred during the too-brief sheltering period in the spring and then began to rise again everywhere (particularly the Sun Belt) when the restrictions began to be lifted. Current expansion of the epidemic in the US is not another wave, it is merely the continuation of the initial outbreak after a lull while some public health measures were enacted.
Heard on the radio this morning a source saying it hasn’t been established that the first wave is over. Record breaking daily hospitalizations for C-19 in Texas the last 3 days.
Nowhere in this article does it mention how wonderfully effective “social distancing” and the near-total shutdown of businesses was at “bending the curve” of the infection.
THAT is why we ended up with lower caseloads than projected.
This reads like an article commissioned by someone with an political axe to grind…
I don’t think I’m the only one who does not have a lot of faith in public numbers regarding the pandemic. Folks have been ordered to fudge things up - like the public site developer in Florida - or like that infamous chart from Georgia. There is no way for people to be aware enough of their own areas’ status to drop masks and gloves yet, but they are. Too may people on that Faux train still. Unfortunately for all of us.