Anyone thinking regional quarantines will work needs to read this. It just worsens the spread as people flee, and you can't block all roads in a country the size of US. (Also, Italy, too, calamitously dragged its foot on pushing for universal mask wearing as early as possible).https://twitter.com/Atul_Gawande/status/1243880262737563649 …
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Japan is the strongest case for masks; Hong Kong is next (they even cut down flu); Taiwan mandated it and has very few deaths and almost no cases; Hong Kong even cut down flu (everyone wears masks). Overwhelming evidence at this point.
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Yes - agree that they have more cases. But obviously they’ve somehow managed to control it enough that you’re not seeing waves of hospitalizations or unexplained deaths from respiratory infections.
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I’m partial to the mask explanation for Japan, but even so it’s mysterious that their numbers are so low given how little they’ve done in terms of social distancing (school closures aside).
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Masks are in short supply in most parts of the world. Do they have their own mask factories in Japan, or are they importing from China?
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