Dr. Anand Parekh appeared on Yahoo Finance on Wednesday with a dire warning about the ongoing coronavirus public health crisis.
He said the lack of testing may be continuing to hide the true crisis. “We don't know how many cases are even in these areas that are not reporting many cases,” said Parekh, who currently works as chief medical advisor at the Bipartisan Policy Center, of areas around the country. “They may just be a couple of weeks behind what is happening right now in New York.
“You always have to hope for the best, but you absolutely have to prepare for the worst,” he said. “I think the critical thing here for the American people is not to panic, but to be prepared.” Parekh agreed with that idea: “We may very well, very soon get to a national quarantine type of situation like that.”
Parekh, who also served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health at the Department of Health and Human Services from 2008 to 2015, noted the U.S. is behind on testing and the health care response. Given that backdrop, “the best way we can prevent the substantial deaths you are seeing now in Spain and Italy is to really double down on social distancing,” he said.
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