The federal government is preparing for a second wave

White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said the administration is preparing for the possibility that a second wave of Covid-19 could hit the United States in the fall. "We are filling the stockpile in anticipation of a possible problem in the fall. We are doing everything we can beneath the surface, working as hard as we possibly can," Navarro told CNN. "You prepare for what can possibly happen. I'm not saying it's going to happen, but of course you prepare," he added. Navarro's comments come as Vice President Mike Pence, who's leading the Trump administration's coronavirus task force, downplays the threat of a second wave that public health experts are warning about. But it’s also important to consider that in many -- if not all -- parts of the US, the first wave of coronavirus still isn't over. In fact, cases have taken only a small dip and are once again on the rise in some places, months after the pandemic hit first American shores. And it's not clear that the country will completely get out of the first wave. Instead of having a true, uniform peak and then drop in cases, it may just be micro peaks and dips in different parts of the country for the foreseeable future.