(WXYZ & ASSOCIATED PRESS) – Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Monday during a White House COVID response team press conference that the response to the Michigan’s case increase is not necessarily to deploy more vaccines to the state, but rather to flatten the curve by closing things down.
“If vaccines go into arms today, we won’t see any effect of these vaccines … for two to six weeks. When you have an acute situation, an extraordinary number of cases, like the one we have in Michigan, the answer is no. necessarily in fact, we know the vaccine will have a delayed response, “he said Monday. “The answer to that is to really close things down, go back to our basics, go back to where we were last spring, last summer and close things up, flatten the curve, reduce contact between them, try as much as we can available, to contact the trail … really what we need to do in these situations is close things up. “
He added: “I think if we tried to vaccinate what is happening in Michigan, we would be disappointed that it took so long for the vaccine to work to have effects.”
Washington, on the other hand, will rush to federal resources to support vaccinations, testing and treatments in Michigan in an effort to control the state’s worst COVID-19 outbreak.
Last week, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer strongly recommended, but did not request, a two-week break in high school face-to-face instruction, in-house dining, and youth sports. He cited more contagious coronavirus variants and pandemic fatigue as factors in the increase, which has led some hospitals to postpone non-urgent procedures.
Hospitalizations across the state have quadrupled in one month and are approaching maximum levels compared to last spring and fall.
“Politics alone will not change the tide. We need everyone to step up and take personal responsibility, ”Whitmer said Friday, without ruling out future restrictions. Michigan’s seven-day case rate was 506 per 100,000 people, well above New Jersey’s second-worst, with 314 per 100,000 residents, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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