While the numbers of deaths and hospitalizations are nowhere near what they were during the city’s peak of the epidemic in the spring, public health experts—including Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA, global director of ICAP—wonder how much worse the data needs to get before officials consider new steps and restrictions, in a Jan 22 article.
“I worry about the focus on vaccines, rather than what’s happening with the virus… I feel like people are numbed by the numbers; I worry about the complacency and fatigue.”
