The contrast with results in other countries shows the weaknesses of American-style social distancing, which has been hampered by a haphazard federal response, exception-filled stay-at-home orders and struggles in testing, contact tracing and quarantining.
It's been over six weeks since New York closed schools and businesses and initiated stay-at-home orders to stop the spread of coronavirus.
Yet on Wednesday, there were still over 600 new hospitalizations and another 232 people died from coronavirus. The totals are down, yes, but Gov. Andrew Cuomo expressed frustration with the slow speed of the decline."We're seeing it gradually decline. We'd like to see a steeper, faster decline, but this is where we are," he said."It's a painfully slow decline, but it's better than the numbers going the other way."New York is not alone.
How contact tracing could fight the coronavirus 01:33Social distancing and shutdowns are just a part of the efforts to stop the virus. And in the US, those other aspects -- testing, contact tracing and quarantining -- have been similarly underwhelming. "Social distancing is meant to buy time, to try to flatten the curve and to buy time for other capabilities like testing or tracing and other public measures to contain the disease," Wen said.
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