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A Second Wave?
Hospital Leaders Urge Public Not to Let Their Guard Down
DBy Joseph Bednar
r. Robert Roose knows we’re all sick of this — the mask wearing, the working and learning from home, the lack of fun
places to visit ... all of it. He gets it. Really. But here’s the thing.
“The virus has not grown weary of transmit-
ting itself,” said Roose, chief medical officer at Mercy Medical Center. “And it has not waned in
“The virus has not grown weary of transmitting itself. And it has not waned in the summer months with the hot weather, and it will not wane in the colder months.”
the summer months with the hot weather, and it will not wane in the colder months. Our practices need to be just as vigilant as they were in the spring and summer in order to be effective. And we need to continue to be clear, consistent, and fact-based in our messaging.”
We spoke to a few local medical leaders who all cautioned against letting ‘pandemic fatigue’ change behaviors, especially when a vaccine is
still not available, infections are rising in many states (the positive-test rate has crept up in Mas- sachusetts, too), and no one knows how the looming flu season will intersect with a still-prev- alent coronavirus.
Dr. Robert Roose says Mercy Medical Center is maintaining its COVID-19 protocols — and hopes the public does so as well.
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