2) “The economic costs of shutdowns are highly visible — closed stores, huge job losses, empty streets, food lines. The health benefits of the shutdowns, however, are invisible, because they involve people not sickened.”
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3) “One striking finding: School closures seemed to have no significant effect, although the authors said the issue requires further study. Banning large gatherings had more of an effect in Iran and Italy than in the other countries.”
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5-10million lives saved
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For those places were lockdown isn’t effective what’s the alternative ? Mass testing ??
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There are no mass tests.
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It'll be interesting to see what happens now that the precautions are effectively over.
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We need to continue distancing whenever possible and wear masks in public!
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Did we prevent 60 million deaths, or did we delay them? That is the question.
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Not 60,000,000 deaths—cases. At the current U.S. fatality rate somewhere around 3,000,000 deaths.
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Shutdown orders prevented about 285 million novel coronavirus infections in China & ~ 60 million in the United States, according to a research study published Monday that examined how stay-at-home orders and other restrictions limited spread.