Basically, to control the virus early would have required a full shutdown of China travel earlier than the partial shutdown, and a shutdown of European travel when we did the partial China one:https://www.wsj.com/graphics/when-did-covid-hit-earliest-death/?mod=hp_lead_pos5 …
We are way, way, way less dense than Taiwan, South Korea and Japan.
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Right and they had an early effective strategy. I was comparing it to Europe and saying why our failures show up a bit later.
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I just did a thread on many of the ways our early response was uniquely disastrous bc of Trump. It’s not just that we moved slow on recognizing and acting. https://twitter.com/sciencepartisan/status/1314579074812186625?s=21 …https://twitter.com/SciencePartisan/status/1314579074812186625 …
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