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WATCH LIVE: WBUR health and science reporter Carey Goldberg interviews Dr. Kevin Tabb, president and CEO of Beth Israel Lahey Health about what happens next in the coronavirus pandemic. They'll be answering your questions -stay tuned for live coverage: https://wbur.fm/3bhejcR
Dr. Kevin Tabb says this pandemic is a "crisis that is different than anything we've ever dealt with... it's larger in scale... there's a bunch of different pieces to it."
Dr. Tabb says he has questions like most others: "How do we maintain the things we’re doing for longer?...And what’s next?... How long is this going to last? Is there a next wave, and what does it look like?"
Q: Are we - in Boston and MA - at the peak of cases of hospitalizations?
Dr. Tabb: "The rise is slowing... we don't know how long that plateau is going to last before we see a decrease.
...We will almost certainly have a prolonged plateau before we see a decrease."
Dr. Tabb: "The rise is slowing... we don't know how long that plateau is going to last before we see a decrease.
...We will almost certainly have a prolonged plateau before we see a decrease."
Dr. Tabb: “We’re a week or more before we start seeing a decrease [in coronavirus cases].”
“The virus doesn’t respect hospital boundaries and it doesn’t respect health care boundaries.”
Dr. Tabb says we all need to continue working together to navigate those boundaries.
“It’s 100 percent a united front.”
Dr. Tabb says we all need to continue working together to navigate those boundaries.
“It’s 100 percent a united front.”
