U.S. Coronavirus Update: CDC Director Warns 2020 Could Be “The Worst Fall, From A Public Health Perspective, We’ve Ever Had” As U.S. Deaths Surge
Tom Tapp Deputy Managing Editor“This is the greatest public health crisis in a century,” said Centers for Disease Control Director Robert Redfield bluntly on Thursday.In fact, Redfield sees the coming flu season in Dickensian terms.“It’s dependent on how the American people choose to respond. It’s really the worst of times or the best of times, depending on the American public,” he said, paraphrasing the opening of Charles Dickens’s classic A Tale of Two Cities.The current pandemic, paired with the oncoming flu season, could create the “worst fall, from a public health perspective, we’ve ever had,” said the CDC director in an interview with WebMD.