然而,许多公共卫生专家认为,现在庆祝还为时尚早。美国已有大约12万人死于新冠病毒感染,且受南部和西部地区感染病例大幅上升的影响,美国每日新增感染病例数量已达到一个多月以来的新高。
But there is at least one point of agreement: “Second wave” is probably the wrong term to describe what’s happening.
但至少有一点是毋庸置疑的:用“第二波”来形容当前的疫情很可能是错误的。
“When you have 20,000-plus infections per day, how can you talk about a second wave?” said Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health. “We’re in the first wave. Let’s get out of the first wave before you have a second wave.”
美国国家卫生研究院的 Clearly there was an initial infection peak in April as cases exploded in New York City. After schools and businesses were closed across the country, the rate of new cases dropped somewhat.
今年4月份,纽约市感染病例激增,美国随之出现了第一次感染高峰。随后,全美各地学校和企业关闭,新增病例数量有所下降。
But “it’s more of a plateau, or a mesa,” not the trough after a wave, said Caitlin Rivers, a disease researcher at Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Health Security.
美国约翰斯·霍普金斯大学健康安全研究中心的疾病研究员凯特琳·里弗斯说,但是“这更像是一座高原,或是一座平顶山 mesa [ˈmeɪsə]:n.台地;[地理]平顶山
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