The trajectory of the pandemic will change – and dramatically for the worse – if people ease up on social distancing or relax with other precautions. Christopher Murray More Quotes by Christopher Murray More Quotes From Christopher Murray The world is really divided into two groups, in a generation, the issue's not going to be about population growth. It's going to be about population decline or relaxing immigration policies. Christopher Murray health-news The progress we are seeing against a variety of illnesses and injuries is good -- even remarkable -- but we can and must do even better. Christopher Murray health-news If you look at the mobility data collected from cell phones in many parts of the country, we're almost back to pre-Covid levels of mobility, so we're just not being as cautious as other people are in other countries. Christopher Murray It's an incredibly simple, cheap, and now turning out to be effective intervention -- both for individuals (and) for communities, there's no reason that every state shouldn't do what other states are starting to do, which is mandate mask use. Christopher Murray There have been many, many states where mobility is starting to go up, even before the social distancing mandates are coming off, this rise of mobility in the last week or 10 days is likely leading to some increased transmission. Christopher Murray If you persisted with social distancing as New Zealand has, and don't relax, in a sense, from a public health point of view, prematurely social distancing, then you can certainly get transmission down to zero. Christopher Murray We made a big push trying to take into account how people move around, like direct measurement through cell phone data, there's more social distancing across the country than I think we expected. A number of states in the South will have smaller epidemics than expected. Christopher Murray
