Cause for a bit of hope? - Re: Covid-19

I think right now, a shut down is necessary for at least a few weeks to slow spread – we’re just too far behind the eight-ball. But I think the incredible damage to our society will be all for nought if we don’t immediately start ramping up the next steps we need to contain this when we reopen society. We need way more tests, we need to rapidly scale up the capacity of our healthcare system for ICU patients, and we need a plan for how to do incredibly aggressive contact tracing, and we need a place for getting enough masks for ordinary people that we can lower the baseline transmission rate in the general population. We need plans for how to protect the most vulnerable. All those efforts so far seem to be in disarray and just not being scaled up very quickly.

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