Gov. Charlie Baker announced on Tuesday his administration’s plans to bring back field hospitals in the face of growing coronavirus cases that point to a coming wintertime surge. The move comes on top of some new containment measures introduced last week, including a suggested curfew. But as the state heads into the winter months and data points to transmission occurring both in small indoor gatherings and settings like unventilated restaurants and some group residential settings, is it enough? To discuss, Jim Braude was joined by William Hanage, an associate professor of epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a member of the school’s Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, and Dr. Cassandra Pierre, acting hospital epidemiologist and medical director of public health programs at Boston Medical Center.
