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Re:California governor issues statewide 'stay at home' order by capkutay on Thursday March 19, 2020 @10:41PM (#22634078)
The idea is just to buy as much time as possible. There are hundreds of clinical trials for treatments going on across the planet...it's possible chloroquine may even be identified as prophylactic.

Also need to give our healthcare workers time to mobilize all their emergency measures to handle surge capacity. I'd imagine the Bay Area is about 2-3 weeks away from its peak number of cases given the quarantine just started last weekend.

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Re:California governor issues statewide 'stay at home' order by hkmurakami on Thursday March 19, 2020 @10:49PM (#22634145)
The hospitals are gearing up for it. A friend is a cardiologist and he's going to be "on the Frontline" in the next week or two. Specialists are going outside their normal duties to deal with the influx. Their family is discussing living separately to avoid infecting inside the family.
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