Social distancing is not only about preventing the illness itself, but rather, slowing the rate at which people get sick. LOS ANGELES - The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning of an even deadlier second wave of COVID-19 come winter. RELATED: Striking PSA illustrates the importance of social distancing with mouse traps and ping-pong balls In an interview with The Washington Post, CDC Director Robert Redfield painted a grim picture of a combined flu and coronavirus epidemic devastating the nation’s health care system.
FILE - A nurse attends to a COVID-19 patient that is wearing a CPAP helmet while he is moved out of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Pope John XXIII Hospital on April 7, 2020 in Bergamo,