Beware second waves of Covid-19 if lockdowns eased early: study

Re:Beware second waves of Covid-19 if lockdowns eased early:... by anonsubmit2671 on Thursday March 26, 2020 @08:43PM (#22699490)

PPE isn't perfect or a magical panacea. Ask Craig Spencer, the NY ER doc who worked with Ebola in Africa, how he got it despite being careful.

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Re:Beware second waves of Covid-19 if lockdowns eased early:... by logicchains on Thursday March 26, 2020 @08:49PM (#22699529)

>PPE isn't perfect or a magical panacea.

Maybe if we invested a trillion dollars (which is an absurd amount of money) into developing and improving it, it would be.

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Re:Beware second waves of Covid-19 if lockdowns eased early:... by jandrese on Thursday March 26, 2020 @09:17PM (#22699680)

The lag time between that much money turning into a country-size amount of equipment that can be used by ordinary people without error might well be longer than the quarantine period.

I've seen some manufacturing miracles, but that's a really tall order.

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Re:Beware second waves of Covid-19 if lockdowns eased early:... by Balgair on Friday March 27, 2020 @12:57PM (#22704554)

> that can be used by ordinary people without error

Social media has been great for airline oxygen mask designers as it has shown the failure rates of real world emergencies. I imagine that even with highly trained people like medical staff, the problems of proper PPE usage are just so much worse. People have a really hard time understanding things clearly.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/18/passengers-fail-to-wear-oxyg...

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