Michael Osterholm Believes 10-20% of Population Has Been Infected with Coronavirus

‘It’s a model that only lasts for four months’

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OSTERHOLM: “I don’t know. And more importantly, it’s a model that only lasts for four months. Let me just give perspective to this. Right now today we are seeing transmission beginning back in China. Singapore had its single largest day of community-acquired infections for which they’re not sure where they came from. Seoul, Korea, today if you look, Korea is reporting a very large number of cases of transmission from within. Now we’re realizing unless you can completely suppress this virus, it’s going to come back, and it’s going to continue to come back as long as there are susceptible people. I don’t have a crystal ball, but I would give a rough estimate that only 10 to 20% of the nation has been infected so far. This will keep marching on like it did in 1918 until 20 to 30% of the population are infected. That should give us a wake-up call that we’re in if for the long haul. How are we going to do that? I hear it in New York, I hear it in New Orleans, I hear it in my hometown of Indianapolis. But we have to deal with how are we going to deal with this day after day after day after day for potentially months?”

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