{"id":161495,"date":"2020-05-25T12:00:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T11:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=161495"},"modified":"2020-05-23T05:07:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T04:07:42","slug":"europe-should-brace-for-second-wave-says-eu-coronavirus-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/05\/europe-should-brace-for-second-wave-says-eu-coronavirus-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe Should Brace for Second Wave, Says EU Coronavirus Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018The question is how big,\u2019 says Dr Andrea Ammon, who thinks March skiing breaks were pivotal to spread.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

20 May 2020 – <\/em>The prospect of a second wave of coronavirus infection across Europe<\/a> is no longer a distant theory, according to the director of the EU agency responsible for advising governments \u2013 including the UK \u2013 on disease control.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe question is when and how big, that is the question in my view,\u201d said Dr Andrea Ammon, director of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).<\/p>\n

It has been the unenviable task of scientists to tell it as it is through the coronavirus pandemic. While politicians have been caught offering empty reassurances, the epidemiologists, a job title new to many, have emerged as the straight shooters of the crisis, sometimes to their detriment.<\/p>\n

And Ammon, a former adviser to the German government, speaks frankly in her first interview with a UK newspaper since the crisis began.<\/p>\n