As masks come off in the Bay Area and restrictions start to ease, experts advise that this is the time to be aware and prepare for another surge that may occur.
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Health experts are wary of telling people to stop wearing masks because of what we have learned in the last two years. When case numbers go down and restrictions start to let up a new variant can hit and send case numbers to skyrocket.
While speaking to KCBS Radio's "As An Expert," Dr. Abraar Karan, Infectious Disease doctor at Stanford University said when the numbers come down after a surge it buys us some time to prepare for the worst.
"But what comes next is hard to predict, yeah know we can't predict what the worst or best case is and we have to prepare for the worst so yes this is time to really get that going," Dr. Karan told KCBS Radio.
He said this is a critical time for the U.S. to think about prevention but prevention is hard to sell.
"As politicians as leaders, you don't get much credit for preventing something you get more credit for addressing something that has already happened or taking care of a crisis," Dr. Karan said. "And this has been a big problem."
He explained, there was a concern at the beginning of the pandemic when people were told to work from home that, if cases didn't rise, people would say, "You wasted our time and has do all these things, and nothing happened." "When, in fact, that was the result of prevention," he added.
"Now people are exhausted people are tired they want to move on from the pandemic," he said. "Yeah, know mid-term elections are on a lot of politicians' minds and I am worried that prevention is going to go out the back door and we‘ll end up in the same situation we were in before."
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