A recent NBC news story recognized that the coronavirus seemed to slow down for several weeks in May, but is on the rise, prompting fears that a second wave has hit the US. NBC News reached out to experts who study patterns of disease, including David Weber, MD, MPH, from the division of infectious diseases, who said a second wave of the coronavirus would suggest that the first wave has come and gone. However, that has not happened.
“We never made it out of the first wave,” Weber said in the article, likening waves of infectious disease to ocean waves. “When you’re 10 feet up on the shore and the wave hits you, it recedes all the way back,” he said. “Now you’re on dry land with no puddle beneath.”
But with COVID-19, he said, “we still got a big puddle there.”
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