The Scariest Pandemic Timeline
If the flu and coronavirus hit at the same time this fall, America might have a longer, more severe lockdown.
by Olga Khazan
Apr 24, 2020
4 minutes
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If you held out a glimmer of hope about life returning to normal this year, that hope may have been thoroughly extinguished this week by the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Robert Redfield.
“There’s a possibility that the assault of the virus on our nation next winter will actually be even more difficult than the one we just went through,” Redfield told The Washington on Tuesday. “We’re going to have the flu epidemic and the coronavirus epidemic at the same time.”
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