The president-elect is up to the task of providing that leadership, Osterholm said, adding that it could also come from local and state officials or those in the medical community. Osterholm said the country needs leadership. He said health-care systems across the country are already overwhelmed in places such as El Paso, Texas, where local officials have already closed businesses and the federal government is sending resources to handle a surge in deaths caused by Covid-19. is headed for dark days before a vaccine becomes available. On the current trajectory, Osterholm said the U.S. "We could really watch ourselves cruising into the vaccine availability in the first and scond quarter of next year while bringing back the economy long before that," he said Wednesday.
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On Wednesday, Osterholm said such a lockdown would help the country bring the virus under control, "like they did in New Zealand and Australia." Epidemiologists have repeatedly pointed to New Zealand, Australia and parts of Asia that have brought the number of daily new cases to under 10 as an example of how to contain the virus. "To be effective, the lockdown has to be as comprehensive and strict as possible." For example, Minnesota deemed 78 percent of its workers essential," they wrote in The New York Times. "The problem with the March-to-May lockdown was that it was not uniformly stringent across the country. Osterholm on Wednesday referenced an August op-ed he wrote with Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Neel Kashkari in which the two argued for more restrictive and uniform lockdowns across the nation.
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