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Showing Original Post only (View all)Rachel Maddow: "If you read one thing today, read this": 👀 [View all]
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Rachel Maddow MSNBC ✔@maddow
If you read one thing today, read this:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/coronavirus-cancel-everything/607675/
Cancel Everything
Social distancing is the only way to stop the coronavirus. We must start immediately.
10:32 AM - Mar 10, 2020
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/coronavirus-cancel-everything/607675/
Cancel Everything
Social distancing is the only way to stop the coronavirus. We must start immediately.
We dont yet know the full ramifications of the novel coronavirus. But three crucial facts have become clear in the first months of this extraordinary global event. And what they add up to is not an invocation to stay calm, as so many politicians around the globe are incessantly suggesting; it is, on the contrary, the case for changing our behavior in radical waysright now.
The first fact is that, at least in the initial stages, documented cases of COVID-19 seem to increase in exponential fashion. On the 23rd of January, Chinas Hubei province, which contains the city of Wuhan, had 444 confirmed COVID-19 cases. A week later, by the 30th of January, it had 4,903 cases. Another week later, by the 6th of February, it had 22,112.
The same story is now playing out in other countries around the world. Italy had 62 identified cases of COVID-19 on the 22nd of February. It had 888 cases by the 29th of February, and 4,636 by the 6th of March.
Because the United States has been extremely sluggish in testing patients for the coronavirus, the official tally of 604 likely represents a fraction of the real case load. But even if we take this number at face value, it suggests that we should prepare to have up to 10 times as many cases a week from today, and up to 100 times as many cases two weeks from today.
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Cancel Everything
Social distancing is the only way to stop the coronavirus. We must start immediately.
We dont yet know the full ramifications of the novel coronavirus. But three crucial facts have become clear in the first months of this extraordinary global event. And what they add up to is not an invocation to stay calm, as so many politicians around the globe are incessantly suggesting; it is, on the contrary, the case for changing our behavior in radical waysright now.
The first fact is that, at least in the initial stages, documented cases of COVID-19 seem to increase in exponential fashion. On the 23rd of January, Chinas Hubei province, which contains the city of Wuhan, had 444 confirmed COVID-19 cases. A week later, by the 30th of January, it had 4,903 cases. Another week later, by the 6th of February, it had 22,112.
The same story is now playing out in other countries around the world. Italy had 62 identified cases of COVID-19 on the 22nd of February. It had 888 cases by the 29th of February, and 4,636 by the 6th of March.
Because the United States has been extremely sluggish in testing patients for the coronavirus, the official tally of 604 likely represents a fraction of the real case load. But even if we take this number at face value, it suggests that we should prepare to have up to 10 times as many cases a week from today, and up to 100 times as many cases two weeks from today.
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I'd love to, but I'm a medical provider. Unless I'm sick, I have to show up for those who are.
Aristus
Mar 2020
#1
They're referring to events like concerts, conventions, anything where attendance isn't mandatory
Dennis Donovan
Mar 2020
#5
Actually, the author of the article, a Johns Hopkins prof, Is referring to other things
MarcA
Mar 2020
#27
It's for people like you that the rest of us should have been tested and isolated.
Hermit-The-Prog
Mar 2020
#14
You should also be provided with PPE, but of course there aren't enough to go around,
tblue37
Mar 2020
#15
Mitigation is to keep hospitals from being overrun like in Italy right now.
Dennis Donovan
Mar 2020
#7
If you can at all slow the rate of transmission, it helps alleviate the strain on the system.
Pacifist Patriot
Mar 2020
#17