I am a urologist, I graduated from medical school 50 years ago, and I continue to practice medicine every day of the week. I have never done so before, but I feel compelled to speak out.
COVID-19, as we all know, has killed many people, and it will continue to do so around the world. It is an embarrassment that our country, the richest and most powerful in the world, is impotent when it comes to doing simple measures that can limit the spread of this deadly virus.
Social distancing, wearing masks while in public, and hand hygiene are certainly key to controlling this disease. If everyone, and I mean everyone, did those practices, the virus would wither.
Since too many people cannot get this simple set of facts to change their behavior and the virus remains rampant, we must have available testing and test kits with a turnaround time for positive results is less than 12 hours. And we need an adequate number of contact tracers to get a handle on small outbreaks before they spread to the greater community.