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My understanding of a lot of countries approaches is that they're not trying to minimise the total number of people that have or will be infected, but they're t
by joppy 7y ago
My understanding of a lot of countries approaches is that they're not trying to minimise the total number of people that have or will be infected, but they're trying to minimise the maximum number of people infected at a time (to ensure that healthcare is still available to everybody that needs it). In these simulations, that would correspond to drawing some horizontal line across the chart and trying to keep the orange under there the whole time.
I'm not sure if the long-term outlook is "we're all going to get it" like the flu, or we're trying to stave as much of it off before a vaccine is widely available.
- jacquesm 7y agoA vaccine may never be available. There are plenty of viruses for which we have been unable to develop an effective vaccine that doesn't kill more people than it saves.
- shintakezou 7y ago> trying to minimise the maximum number of people infected at a time (to ensure that healthcare is still available to everybody that needs it). It is so, at least in Italy. Basically they told us the reason of these measure is to spread the cases over a larger time frame... but nobody has said it's to reduce the number of cases.