That the ventillators are not useful is stated in the top post. That our progress is slowed down because of the measures is also obvious and evident. The whole

That the ventillators are not useful is stated in the top post. That our progress is slowed down because of the measures is also obvious and evident. The whole world is slowed down, why would you think research is not? As for contact tracing - if you think it a bit through and consider all the possible problems with both performing and enforcing it - not to mention the asymptomatic carriers and the windows of time in which that even makes sense to do it simply appears to be unfeasible. Not to mention that it is an approach that no one has ever tried to do before at this scale. Saying that the we will scale up a process in the US to a national level in a few months is absurd. I am simply pointing out that it is very unlikely that it would work and perhaps resources should be spent elswhere.