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    1. Jeremy C. Young‏ @jeremycyoung Mar 17
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      So the actual death toll from the virus would be closer to 4 million Americans -- in a span of 3 months. 8-15% of all Americans over 70 would die.

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    2. Jeremy C. Young‏ @jeremycyoung Mar 17
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      How many is 4 million people? It's more Americans than have died all at once from anything, ever. It's the population of Los Angeles. It's 4 times the number of Americans who died in the Civil War...on both sides combined. It's two-thirds as many people as died in the Holocaust.

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    3. Jeremy C. Young‏ @jeremycyoung Mar 17
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      Americans make up 4.4% of the world's population. If we extrapolate these numbers to the rest of the world (warning: MOE is high here), this gives us 90 million deaths globally from COVID-19, in 3-6 months. 15 Holocausts. 1.5 times as many people as died in all of World War II.

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    4. Jeremy C. Young‏ @jeremycyoung Mar 17
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      Now, of course countries won't stand by and do nothing. So the Imperial College team ran the numbers again, this time assuming a "mitigation" strategy: all symptomatic cases in the US in isolation. Families of those cases quarantined. All Americans over 70 social distancing.

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    5. Jeremy C. Young‏ @jeremycyoung Mar 17
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      This mitigation strategy is what you've seen a lot of people talking about when they say we should "flatten the curve": try to slow the spread of the disease to the people most likely to die from it, to avoid overwhelming hospitals.

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    6. Jeremy C. Young‏ @jeremycyoung Mar 17
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      And it does flatten the curve -- but not nearly enough. The death rate from the disease is cut in half, but it still kills 1.1 million Americans all by itself. The peak need for ventilators falls by two-thirds, but it still exceeds the number of ventilators in the US by 8 times.

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    7. Jeremy C. Young‏ @jeremycyoung Mar 17
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      That leaves the actual death toll in the US at right around 2 million deaths. The population of Houston. Two Civil Wars. One-third of the Holocaust. Globally, 45 million people die: 7.5 Holocausts, 3/4 of World War II. That's what happens if we rely on mitigation & common sense.

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    8. Jeremy C. Young‏ @jeremycyoung Mar 17
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      Finally, the Imperial College team ran the numbers again, assuming a "suppression" strategy: isolate symptomatic cases, quarantine their family members, social distancing for the whole population, all public gatherings/most workplaces shut down, schools and universities close.

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    9. Jeremy C. Young‏ @jeremycyoung Mar 17
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      Suppression works! The death rate in the US peaks 3 weeks from now at a few thousand deaths, then goes down. We hit but don't exceed the number of available ventilators. The nightmarish death tolls from the rest of the study disappear.

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    10. Jeremy C. Young‏ @jeremycyoung Mar 17
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      But here's the catch: if we EVER relax suppression before a vaccine is administered to the entire population, COVID-19 comes right back and kills millions of Americans in a few months, the same as before.

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      Harj Taggar‏ @harjtaggar Mar 17
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      This was the flaw in the paper, they did not make assumptions for and model based on rolling out more testing/contact tracing when suppression is relaxed -https://necsi.edu/review-of-ferguson-et-al-impact-of-non-pharmaceutical-interventions …

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