Chris Murray

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May 17, 1968

There's a real risk that winter surge has already started in Europe, cases are exploding there. So we know it's coming and we expect it to hit The US pretty soon.

It will take a concerted effort but the impact is extraordinary, it's really quite extraordinary what it could achieve.

That increase in our forecasts is being driven by the big upsurge in, you know, the ones we know about in Florida, Texas, Arizona, California, there's a longer list of states where deaths are going up, as well as hospitalizations. So that includes Louisiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexico, South Carolina, Tennessee and Utah.

It's an incredibly simple strategy and intervention, it's one that will save lives, but it will also help the economy enormously because it will avoid shutdowns which will inevitably come when things get quickly out of control in some states.

It's a safer strategy to get the number of infections in the community down to a really low level, and then testing and contact tracing and isolation can work.