Forward from my NIH PHD scientist brother-in-law

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recommended article.

https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-people-will-die-f4d3d9cd99ca

SNIP:

Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now
Politicians, Community Leaders and Business Leaders: What Should You Do and When?

With everything that’s happening about the Coronavirus, it might be very hard to make a decision of what to do today. Should you wait for more information? Do something today? What?
Here’s what I’m going to cover in this article, with lots of charts, data and models with plenty of sources:
How many cases of coronavirus will there be in your area?
What will happen when these cases materialize?
What should you do?
When?
When you’re done reading the article, this is what you’ll take away:
The coronavirus is coming to you.
It’s coming at an exponential speed: gradually, and then suddenly.
It’s a matter of days. Maybe a week or two.
When it does, your healthcare system will be overwhelmed.
Your fellow citizens will be treated in the hallways.
Exhausted healthcare workers will break down. Some will die.
They will have to decide which patient gets the oxygen and which one dies.
The only way to prevent this is social distancing today. Not tomorrow. Today.
That means keeping as many people home as possible, starting now.

[JHB]

1. Clickable version to avoid broken link

Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now

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2. Thank

you, JHB!

[Karadeniz]

3. Thanks! Very helpful. The thing that concerns me is that we do so little testing, our numbers

Are worse than we think.

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4. I also asked him about

packaging / groceries / mail deliveries, etc.

His answer:

Not that I know of. Persistence of virus depends on surface. Impermiable like plastic or stone or metal, virus stay infections for a few days. But on fabric and paper and wood, it dies quickly. you could spray outside of containers with bleach solution if you want to be sure, or wash hands soon after opening shipping package and item package. or open wearing gloves and pour into into a new clean container. Or freeze-thaw 2x cycles which kills the virus, or just wait a week before touching.