In the meantime, health officials from the CDC and the World Health Organization (WHO) have urged people to continuously wash their hands, avoid touching their face, and try to avoid as much social contact as possible in order to slow the spread of the virus.
“For the short run, anything we can do to mitigate a huge spike in cases will serve us really well,” Forman said. “We’re not just trying to prevent people from becoming infected at this point. We can accept the idea that maybe 30 million, maybe 90 million people in the United States will become infected with this over the next 12 or 18 months.”
He continued: “What we cannot afford is for 30 million people to become infected over the next three months or five months. So anything we can do to dampen the speed at which this spreads through the population will serve everybody well.”
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