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Re:'Pandemic ventilator' could offer solution in potential '... by jariel on Sunday March 22, 2020 @10:18AM (#22655078)
" The only scalable way around that is to find a treatment that significantly lowers the need for hospitalization."

This isn't quite true.

Taiwan, Singapore and S. Korea have not 'shut-down' their economy, and they have tamed the problem.

Massive and widespread testing, assertive isolation and tracking of individuals who test positive can work on some level.

Combined with some other things like maybe keeping 'big gatherings' or 'social gatherings down', requiring people to wear masks on trains, busses, airplanes - we may be able to reasonably suppress Corona without a medical discovery.

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Re:'Pandemic ventilator' could offer solution in potential '... by tcbawo on Sunday March 22, 2020 @12:06PM (#22655988)
Published literature suggests that surgical masks reduce the amount of escaped virus by 3x. If we can make enough masks, we need everyone to start wearing them. They should be handing them out at grocery stores!
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