A member of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden’s coronavirus task force said Thursday she doesn’t view a nationwide lock down as necessary. Céline Gounder’s comments backed away from comments by epidemiologist Michael Osterholm a day earlier.
“With all due respect to Dr. Osterholm, that doesn’t necessarily represent the entire advisory board or what the Biden-Harris transition team is planning to do,” Gounder said on CNN. She said that “perhaps there are some places where you need to be more draconian, but I really don’t think that’s a national policy.”
Osterholm told Yahoo Finance a lockdown lasting four to six weeks combined with a fiscal package to support workers, businesses and local governments could help contain the virus.
Ohio Governor Doesn’t Want Another Shutdown (3:38 p.m. NY)
Ohio is at a record for new infections, total hospitalizations and intensive-care patients, Governor Mike DeWine said as he warned: “We don’t want another shutdown.”
On Wednesday, the Republican governor reissued the state’s mask mandate and tightened other restrictions, warning that bars, restaurants and gyms may be closed if people don’t comply with anti-virus measures. Ohio reported 7,101 new infections on Thursday, another record.
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