Simple 3 Step Strategy to Stop the Coronavirus in the United States - A Twitter threadhttps://medium.com/@molson_hart/what-the-united-states-needs-to-do-in-order-to-stop-the-coronavirus-in-the-us-ada0b674a31 …
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Step 1C - Test all foreign visitors at the airport. If test is not reliable, require all foreign visitors to self-isolate for three weeks. Step 1D - Fine or imprison anyone who disobeys. Step 1E - Concurrently build supply chain for masks, PPE, ventilators, and rapid testing.
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Step 2A - While loosening national self-isolation restrictions, establish testing checkpoints all over the country in locations with significant traffic. If you want to go to the grocery store, you need to get tested for COVID-19. Want to go to the mall? expect to get tested.
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Step 2B - Require people to wear masks whenever they are out. Step 2C - Anyone who tests positive must self-isolate for 3 weeks. Again, if you disobey you are fined or go to prison.
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Step 2D - As soon as the number of positive tests in a location gets too high (metric can be infections per local hospital beds), return to step 1, but keep it local. Increase rate of testing in surrounding areas.
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If the situation continues to deteriorate, apply step 1 over a wider and wider area, as large as the entire United States again if necessary.
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If at any point, there is legitimate evidence of reinfection or mutation of the virus, reconsider totally the strategy. If reinfection is proven impossible, recovered patients can receive an ID, which will allow them to avoid testing and other hassles.
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Step 3A - If no reinfection or mutation, continue the strategy until one of the following is achieved: - Treatment that makes the virus less deadly - Vaccine - Herd immunity Then reconsider again.
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Every time you do a lockdown, the virus comes back slower, because, because more people have been infected (and thus immune), the rate of infection is lower. This buys you time for vaccine or treatment. That's why this works! Needs to be a federally led strategy. /ENDpic.twitter.com/gxxKeMUArh
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1. There is no interest or willingness to expand testing across the whole country. 2. Essential workers - police, firefighters, delivery, grocery clerks must be tested, eg weekly - not happening. 3. Cannot require "test pass" to visit public places, metro, grocery etc.
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