Faye Flam
Guest Columnist
So are we having a fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. or not? University of Minnesota’s Michael Osterholm has forecast a COVID “Category 5 hurricane” this spring. To some people, a look at hard-hit Michigan could justify this level of alarm.
But Paul Offit of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia could also claim to be right with his much more optimistic view that vaccines will mostly tame the pandemic from this point forward. After all, U.S. death rates and hospitalizations are not spiking and may never return to anything close to the fall/winter peak.
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Maybe COVID doesn’t cross the caution tape.
Joe Nocera: I ve just finished a couple of weeks in Delray Beach, Fla., and I have to tell you: It s a whole different pandemic down here. The restaurants are full; the stores are hopping. Waiters and salespeople wear masks, but most other people don t, not even in crowded bars. South Floridians are acting as if the pandemic is over, even though it plainly isn t.
Most of my friends in New York tend to view Floridians as idiots, at least when it comes to COVID-19. They re convinced that Gov. Ron DeSantis is hiding the true number of fatalities, and that his refusal to impose a mask mandate and his insistence on keeping the economy relatively open are the irresponsible acts of a Trump wannabe.
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