Biden's COVID-19 Advisor Speaks in Favor of a Nationwide Lockdown

Biden's COVID-19 Advisor
Speaks in Favor of a
Nationwide Lockdown.
Dr. Michael Osterholm, a member of
President-elect Joe Biden’s COVID-19 “advisory board,”
has spoken out about the benefits of a lockdown. .
He told Yahoo Finance on Wednesday that the
United States has a “big pool of money” available to help
get the economy back on track during a lockdown. .
We could pay for a package right now to cover
all of the wages, lost wages for individual workers,
for losses to small companies, to medium-sized
companies or city, state, county governments, Dr. Michael Osterholm, via CNBC.
With those measures in place,
Osterholm said the U.S. could
lock down for “four to six weeks.”.
According to Osterholm, doing so
would allow the U.S. to easily cruise into
2021’s stage of "vaccine availability.".
We could really watch ourselves cruising
into the vaccine availability in the first and
second quarter of next year while bringing
back the economy long before that, Dr. Michael Osterholm, via CNBC.
Osterholm previously argued in favor
of a nationwide lockdown in an August
op-ed for ‘The New York Times.'.
Osterholm and Minneapolis Federal
Reserve President Neel Kashkari said
the lockdown in early 2020 failed because
it was not “uniformly stringent.” .
The problem with the March-to-May lockdown
was that it was not uniformly stringent across
the country … To be effective, the lockdown has
to be as comprehensive and strict as possible, Osterholm and Kashkari, via 'The New York Times'