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Re:U.S. field hospitals stand down, most without treating an... by ashtonkem on Friday May 08, 2020 @12:14PM (#23116404)
Those would’ve been excellent suggestions in January, yes. But by mid March we’d missed the opportunity to use less intense measures.
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Re:U.S. field hospitals stand down, most without treating an... by clairity on Friday May 08, 2020 @12:23PM (#23116489)
no, the virus didn't somehow get more contagious in march, it had just spread farther/deeper. the same measures would have reduced risk equally in either case. only the likelihood of need (that those measures would have non-trivially helped prevent spread) would have gone up on a per-interaction basis.
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Re:U.S. field hospitals stand down, most without treating an... by ashtonkem on Friday May 08, 2020 @01:20PM (#23117149)
The same measures have wildly different levels of impact based on how deep the virus has gotten into the community.
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