Former CDC Official Warns Of 2nd COVID-19 Wave: Most Americans Are Still Susceptible
May 6, 2020 / DAVID GREENE
Since the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S., officials have been warning about the prospect of a second wave. Some even say additional COVID-19 spikes in the country could be worse than the first wave.
Dr. Ali Khan, former director of the Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, says he is confident that a second wave will happen. That’s because, he says in an interview with NPR’s Morning Edition, the vast majority of people in the U.S. are likely still at risk of contracting the virus.
He says a second wave might be described as a mountain range rather than a big peak. “Even though we call it a pandemic, it’s really multiple hundreds of different outbreaks in the U.S. going on at the same time,” he says. “A lot of separate outbreaks will feel like sort of a second wave coming.”
