Initially, we had a posture of containment so that we could give people time to prepare for where we are right now. We're shifting into a mitigation phase, which means that we're helping communities understand Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams're going to see more cases, unfortunately, you're going to see more deaths. But that doesn't mean that we should panic.

Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams

I've shared myself personally that I have high blood pressure. That I have heart disease and spent a week in the( intensive care unit) due to a heart condition. That I actually have asthma and I'm pre-diabetic, and so I represent that legacy of growing up poor and black in America, i and many black Americans are at higher risk for Covid. It's why we need everyone to do their part to slow the spread.

Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams