Scott Gottlieb is a former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. Caitlin M. Rivers, an epidemiologist, is a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.
Dramatic measures have been taken over the past week to fight the coronavirus epidemic in the United States. President Trump’s announcement of a ban on most flights from Europe, except for the United Kingdom, on Wednesday night came at about the same time the National Basketball Association suspended the rest of the basketball season. In New York on Tuesday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) dispatched the state’s National Guard to New Rochelle, amid a major coronavirus outbreak, to enforce new rules closing large gathering places, such as places of worship and social halls, within a one mile “containment zone.”
