Cuomo wonders if coronavirus quarantine may have backfired in some cases | New York Post - Bernadette Hogan and Aaron Feis:
March 26, 2020 - "Sweeping statewide quarantine orders may not have been the most effective strategy to combat the coronavirus, Gov. Andrew Cuomo conceded on Thursday.... 'We closed everything down. That was our public health strategy,' said Cuomo during an Albany press briefing. 'If you re-thought that or had time to analyze that public health strategy, I don’t know that you would say "Quarantine everyone."'
"Cuomo has publicly mused about quarantines and how best to eventually restart the Empire State’s shattered economy. But Wednesday, Cuomo’s answer during an hour-long news conference about quarantines — which are backed by city and state health officials — took a new turn as he speculated it might have spread the disease.
"'I don’t even know that that was the best public health policy. Young people then quarantined with older people, [it] was probably not the best public health strategy,' he said. 'The younger people could have been exposing the older people to an infection'....
"Cuomo’s office said the governor was referencing a study by a Yale professor, who wrote a column that appeared in the opinion section of the New York Times last week. They pointed the Post to nearly identical comments Cuomo made about the topic during a press conference Monday, when he explicitly named the piece’s author, Dr. David Katz.
"'There’s a theory of risk stratification that Dr. Katz who’s at Yale University is working on, which is actually very interesting to me,' Cuomo told reporters then. 'Isolate people but really isolate the vulnerable people. Don’t isolate everyone because some people, most people, are not vulnerable to it.'
He added: 'And if you isolate all people, you may be actually exposing the more vulnerable people by bringing in a person who is healthier and stronger and who may have been exposed to the virus.'"
Read more: https://nypost.com/2020/03/26/cuomo-admits-that-quarantine-may-have-backfired-in-some-cases/
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