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I'm not sure the person you're responding to was using it in this sense, but the word "eliminate," in epidemiological terms, means to get the virus under contro
by pmiller2 6y ago
I'm not sure the person you're responding to was using it in this sense, but the word "eliminate," in epidemiological terms, means to get the virus under control such that outbreaks are reduced in scope to local clusters that can be dealt with using methods like contact tracing. In that sense, yes, we absolutely can, and should, eliminate this virus.
- Normal_gaussian 6y agoYou're right - I was using it in a totality sense. While I know enough to know it won't get there the point was to draw the extreme and highlight that deaths aren't the only cost on the scale from here to there.