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[quote=Anonymous]No time to read 17 pages, but the chart in this article is the key: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2020/3/6/21161234/coronavirus-covid-19-science-outbreak-ends-endemic-vaccine

The takeway: Act quickly, and do social distancing, so you can spread out the infections so they don't overwhelm the medical system. Otherwise good luck to anyone who breaks their arm, gets a UTI, ear infection, etc., etc., needs to go to urgent care or a hospital, and there's no capacity. And health workers start getting it and self isolating and dying, as in China. Read the recent letter to the editor in either JAMA or The Lancet about what it was like to work at a hospital in Wuhan last month, and how challenging it is to take the necessary precautions, day after day. And all those people who are infected, perhaps unknowingly because they're not at high risk, but live with family members who are -- what about them? It's a recipe for a total clusterf***.

I saw a chart recently showing that cities that closes schools the earliest during the 1918 influenza epidemic had the lowest fatality rates.

All those arguments about not closing schools are short-sighted. This is about survival; everything else is secondary. The children whose parents or other relatives or friends die because of these (in)actions won't thank you later for keeping their schools open for some reason that will seem very minor compared to the losses after all is said and done. And it's not an either/or, people -- just because schools give out meals to students doesn't mean that's the ONLY way for them to get meals.[/quote]

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