The U.S. health-care system lacks the capacity to handle the latest coronavirus if the rapidly spreading outbreak can’t be contained, former CDC and FDA officials told a Senate panel.
“Slowing down the spread is important because if we have a lot of cases all at once, we simply don’t have the surge capacity to manage that in our health-care environment,” Julie Gerberding, who led the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during the 2003 SARS outbreak, said Wednesday at a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee roundtable.
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