re: “Flattening the curve” makes this outbreak last over a year

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As bad as this will be, and it will be very bad, the expected impact of 100,000s (if not millions) of deaths in the US, and our healthcare system being steamrolled, would have been worse.

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How many cases have there been worldwide since November?

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As bad as this will be, and it will be very bad, the expected impact of 100,000s (if not millions) of deaths in the US, and our healthcare system being steamrolled, would have been worse.

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I agree, but the steps we’ve taken so far are not meant to go on for months. They are just meant to give us a reprieve, get our healthcare system supplied and on an emergency footing, then go to the mitigation strategy. We will not be in this mode for long. I expect us to be in mitigation by April 7.

Mitigation will be no large gatherings, like concerts, sporting events or parades; restaurants open for seated parties; everyone back at work; isolation of the vulnerable; and quarantine of those identified as infected by the largest testing regimen the world has ever seen.