This is absolutely false and yet another reason why journalists shouldn’t play epidemiology. Mitigating the rate of spread leads to less deaths overall. If eve

This is absolutely false and yet another reason why journalists shouldn’t play epidemiology. Mitigating the rate of spread leads to less deaths overall. If everyone got it at the same time, there wouldn’t be enough healthcare system capacity to handle it. This isn’t a new concept, it’s well-known within epidemiology. Cities with early interventions in the 1918 flu epidemic had 50% lower peak death rates. If everyone got it at once, many more people would die than if the same number of people got it over a longer period of time. The following is my speculation, but if we woke up tomorrow and everyone suddenly had the coronavirus, then the economy would be in much bigger trouble than it would be with a slower rate of infection.