By Marie Rosenthal, MS
Even though the daily number of new COVID-19 cases has been decreasing the last couple of weeks, it is no time to put down one’s guard, according to Jay C. Butler, MD, the deputy director for infectious diseases at the CDC.
“If this pandemic were a stock, we might be wanting to sell, but it’s important to recognize that these numbers could potentially rise again,” he said. “While these [downward] trends are encouraging, I want to stress that