in a piece headlined “There Isn’t a Coronavirus ‘Second Wave'" that the nation is winning the fight against the virus.Many public health experts, however, suggest it's no time to celebrate.
About 120,000 Americans have died from the new virus and there are worrisome recent increases in reported cases in the South and West.But there is at least one point of agreement: “Second wave” is probably the wrong term to describe what's happening. “When you have 20,000-plus infections per day, how can you talk about a second wave?" said Dr.
Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health. “We’re in the first wave. Let’s get out of the first wave before you have a second wave.” Clearly there was an initial infection peak in April as cases exploded.