(WXYZ & ASSOCIATED PRESS) – Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said during a news briefing of the White House’s COVID response on Monday that the response to the increase in Michigan is not necessarily to deploy more vaccines to the state. , but rather to flatten the curve by turning things off.
“If vaccines are taken today, we will not see the effect of the vaccines … for between two and six weeks. If you have an acute situation, an extraordinary number of cases, such as in Michigan, the answer is not necessarily to give vaccine, in fact we know the vaccine will have a delayed response, ‘she said on Monday. “The answer to that is to really close things, to go back to our basics, to go back to where we were last spring, last summer was, and to shut things down, to flatten the curve, to reduce contact with each other, to test to the extent we have available, to contact track … really what we are in such situations need to do is to shut things down. ‘
She added: “I think if we try to vaccinate out of what’s happening in Michigan, we’ll be disappointed that it takes so long before the vaccine works to have the impact.”
Washington would rather raise federal resources to support vaccinations, tests and treatments to Michigan in an effort to control the state’s COVID-19 outbreak the worst in the country.
Last week, Governor Gretchen Whitmer strongly recommended but did not order a two-week break in high school education, indoor restaurants and sports for young people. She cites more contagious coronavirus variants and pandemic fatigue as factors in the boom, which has led some hospitals to postpone non-emergency procedures.
Hospitals across the country have quadrupled within a month and have been at a peak since last spring and fall.
‘Policy alone will not change the tide. We all need to act and take personal responsibility, “Whitmer said on Friday, while not ruling out future restrictions. According to the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, the seven-day seven-day Michigan was 506 per 100,000 people, well above New Jersey’s second-worst, with 314 per 100,000 residents.
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