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Re:Covid-19 Sanity – Covid-19 papers from bioRxiv/medRxiv se... by vonmoltke on Monday March 30, 2020 @09:20AM (#22727774)

So, what is it going to be in 3 days? 6 days? 9 days? Your view on the situation is purely reactionary. Having population-level data allows public health officials to proactively take steps to mitigate the current crisis and anticipate how much surge capacity they will actually need. Right now they can't do that, because even testing of symptomatic people is bottlenecked.

Being reactionary to a crisis like this is a very bad idea and will lead to it being worse than it needs to be.

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Re:Covid-19 Sanity – Covid-19 papers from bioRxiv/medRxiv se... by watwut on Monday March 30, 2020 @10:51AM (#22728462)

I think that fear that people are on fishing expedition to find any numbers that could be twisted as optimistic and then use them for politics is not reactionary paranoia. That is exactly what was and is going on last weeks.

And phaemon is completely correct in saying that US has not done everything it can. It was the opposite - spinning situation in absurdly optimistic way until it became impossible to ignore.

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