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A comment on Ask HN: Isolation (from coronavirus) is only a temporary band-aid that will fail.

Re:Ask HN: Isolation (from coronavirus) is only a temporary ... by chub500 on Friday March 20, 2020 @09:06AM (#22637218)
My amateur take:

1. Drug therapy may enable the "severe" hispitalization required cases to drop into stay at home cases.

2. It is not yet established at all that huge testing capacity + travel restrictions cant curb spread. See the Gates AMA.

However, it seems certain policies and travel restrictions will remain until an effective vaccine is available.

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Re:Ask HN: Isolation (from coronavirus) is only a temporary ... by DougN7 on Friday March 20, 2020 @10:18AM (#22637665)
1. My concern is how long/much we destroy the economy (and people's lives) while waiting/hoping for the drug therapy's discovery, production and distribution.

2. If I am tested today, but get the virus tomorrow, the testing didn't help. Testing of everyone at once, and then immediate response would work, but I don't think that is realistic. This is the problem I see - that all the solutions out there don't scale to nation sizes. So the virus keeps spreading until we get herd immunity one way or another.

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