If you missed the interview on Monday with Michael Mina, a lead author of the COVID-19 Roadmap, you can read a summary of it here. The goal and purpose was to lay out how the country can enter the new normal stage of the pandemic and manage the virus without eliminating it. “We can’t get to the next normal until we get the worst of the current situation under control,” he told callers.  Dr. Mina thinks we are moving too quickly but at the same time said it is “okay to have a little respite.”  He particularly said we should be ready for a “new big wave” in the Southeast and another large wave in the Fall in the Northeast.  He reiterated what we all know – everyone is safer outdoors, particularly when air conditioning is being used inside. Dr. Mina offered an assessment that if another pandemic happened now, we are not in a better place, and may even be at greater disadvantage. However, he pointed out unambiguously that aging services providers know a lot more from their pandemic experience and are in a good place to keep up the leadership.  “Heroes rise up when they are needed,” he added.

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Laura Hofmann, MSN, RN – Director of Clinical and Nursing Facility Regulatory Services
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