Even Dr. Fauci has suggested that another national lockdown must be instituted only as a last resort. “This has been wrongly framed as a debate between lockdown and no lockdown,” said Dr. Deepti Gurdasani, a clinical epidemiologist at Queen Mary University of London. Dr. David Nabarro, a special envoy to the World Health Organization, has urged governments not to resort to lockdowns as the primary method to control the virus. But the lockdowns in the spring were necessary, he added, as emergency measures to give countries time to put in place strategies to control the virus. “There is a middle way,” Dr. Nabarro added, between strict lockdowns and letting the virus freely infect people.

Source: New York Times October 19, 2020 21:54 UTC