(U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Amouris Coss)NEW YORK - What’s all this talk about a “second wave” of U.S.
coronavirus cases?In The Wall Street Journal last week, Vice President Mike Pence wrote 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.