As Coronavirus Cases Soar In South, New England Prepares For Second Wave

BOSTON — Developments with the coronavirus move fast. Five months ago, we were living our normal lives. Four months ago, Massachusetts reported its first COVID-19 death. Two months ago, things started to re-open. So what can we expect to happen in the fall?

“As a country we’re still going up, we’re still in the first wave,” said Tufts Medical Center Epidemiologist Dr. Shira Doron. “As a state, as a region, we had a peak. We came way down and so we are on the other end of a first wave.”

Dr. Doron says public health experts are preparing for a second wave and a possible second surge of hospitalizations. She says the severity of the outbreak will largely be determined by people’s habits.

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