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There is, and was, a lot of confusion about what the goals were, although they all aligned in immediate massive action. 'Crushing' the curve and getting back t
by arcticfox 6y ago
There is, and was, a lot of confusion about what the goals were, although they all aligned in immediate massive action.
'Crushing' the curve and getting back to contact tracing levels is one. 'Flattening' and avoiding Lombardy is another.
I was hoping we would have used the time to have massive testing programs by now in the US, to follow Korea's example, but that hasn't happened at all.
Paul Romer's plan is my favorite but the country has seen little progress since he proposed it https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/paul-romer-on-how-to-survive-the-chaos-of-the-coronavirus https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/paul-romer-on-how-to-...
- maxerickson 6y agoThe US has more testing capacity than South Korea relative to total population (so we've ramped up significantly), the problem is that our numbers of infected are too high to use that capacity for suppression.