Americans ‘are paying the price’ for shoddy coronavirus response, doctor says
The spike in coronavirus cases in parts of the U.S. came as no surprise to many public health experts.
Arizona, Texas, and Florida are three states, in particular, that reopened their economies sooner than others are seeing record numbers of hospitalizations and cases.
“We’ve seen a roughly 300% increase in the number of cases statewide, in ICU and hospital usage here in Austin and Houston,” Dr. Pritesh Gandhi, a primary care physician and internal medicine specialist in Austin, Texas, said on Yahoo Finance’s The Ticker (video above). “This is part of that first wave. We just frankly didn’t open in the right way. Didn’t embrace key public health principles and are paying the price for it right now.”
Coronavirus cases keep climbing outside the U.S. (Graphic: David Foster/Yahoo Finance)
‘An absence of leadership’
Houston and Austin are both seeing major surges in hospitalizations, so much so that ICU bed