The people I'm most concerned about are people who are living in close quarters, multigenerational households.
No, if you go through 14 days, you haven't had a test so you don't know if you've had it, you don't know if you had immunity, you still need to be careful, but you don't need to isolate.
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If a person does that for 14 days and they're not showing any symptoms, does that mean they're free to roam around, but still stay 6 feet away from people? What happens at the end of that 14 days?Ī: Yeah, you should start licking surfaces and getting real close to people (laughs). VERSHA: We get a lot of questions from people who just want clarification about self-quarantining, for that 14-day period specifically. We looked at fevers compared to normal, what they would normally be at this time of year. And there were dramatic reductions in fevers, which are an early warning. We graphed what happened after each action. Santa Clara, which put in place very intensive restrictions, closed bars and restaurants early Miami Dade, which didn't. We did a comparison of two counties, Santa Clara, California and the other one was Miami-Dade County. I have access to data which is real-time. VERSHA: From what you’ve seen so far, is social distancing working the way that we want it to? And the support that we can give one another is even more important. But also in hard times, great things can happen. Because the loss of income, the insecurity, the sense of lack of context, the anxiety, the inability to be comforted by the people in your life that you love.the fact that you can't watch your sports team or your entertainment show.all of those things, I'm not discounting any. I'm feeling if we told people during earlier times that our sacrifice was to stay home with our family, they would say, this is not quite such a big sacrifice. We're not used to not being able to go out, aren't used to being able to not see our friends and all that. We're not used to the shelves being out of stuff.
We're used to basically getting what we want when we want it. My generation hasn't, younger generations haven't, even slightly older generations haven't, like people did during World War II and in other times in our history. I'm 53 (even though I’m sure I look 25), but I've never been asked to sacrifice in any significant way. I would say there's another element of this. It feels like people felt after 9/11, except even more uncertain than that. This is a larger scale, but also from a traumatic standpoint, because it feels so uncertain to people.
First of all, I don't think anybody alive, unless they were alive during the 1918 flu, has seen anything like this - or unless they were in Africa during the Ebola crisis. VERSHA: Given your career, have you ever encountered anything like this before? I think, rightly so, we're saying this is a scale that many of us have not seen in our lifetimes.ĪNDY SLAVITT: Well, I think two things. Watch the interview in its entirety above. Read our Q&A with Slavitt below, which has been edited for length and clarity. over the next couple of months, and why it’s important to try to find some humor in bleak times. Slavitt sat down for a Skype interview with NowThis recently to talk about the success of social distancing measures, what we can expect in the U.S. He’s launched a podcast, “In the Bubble,” where he speaks to guests both inside and outside of the medical field in order to keep people up to speed. His rapid-fire daily tweets involve taking a huge amount of real-time data and synthesizing it into language that everyone can understand - with an emphasis on staying home, social distancing, and flattening the curve. One of the leading public health voices to emerge during the coronavirus crisis is Andy Slavitt, the former acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under President Obama, who went on to found a non-profit called United States of Care.
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