Where coronavirus hospitalizations are falling

Re:Where coronavirus hospitalizations are falling by greedo on Sunday May 17, 2020 @02:03PM (#23213818)

Test and Trace was never going to work in the way we think. The US is too dispersed, too large, and too opposed to government restrictions/intervention. If we had actually listened to GWB about pandemics when he was in office, and set up realistic T&T mechanisms, we might have had a chance in early January. But it quickly became apparent that we were not going to be able to contain SARS-CoV-2, and would have to try to mitigate it.

While it's easy to take political sides with this, that's in the past. We could have had better CDC leadership than Redfield. We could have had better leadership on the NSC than we had after the advisory committee was disbanded. We could have had better presidential leadership. We could have used testing kits from Germany until US kits were effective.

There's a lot of shoulda/coulda/woulda. But here we are.

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Re:Where coronavirus hospitalizations are falling by matthewdgreen on Sunday May 17, 2020 @07:05PM (#23216355)

None of this stuff is in the past. It could be anywhere from 12 months to forever until we have a vaccine. We might have missed the boat on our first wave (in frankly, the most unforgivable way possible), but we still have lots of time to improve in case we get further waves. And we damned well better assume those are coming.

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Re:Where coronavirus hospitalizations are falling by dragonwriter on Sunday May 17, 2020 @07:07PM (#23216372)

> We might have missed the boat on our first wave (in frankly, the most unforgivable way possible), but we still have lots of time to improve in case we get further waves.

In much of the country that isn't NYC, including many of the places aggressively reopening, the first wave hasn't even peaked yet, so it's not so much that we missed the boat on the first wave and are now into preparing for potential later waves, we’re still actively screwing up the first wave.

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Re:Where coronavirus hospitalizations are falling by greedo on Sunday May 17, 2020 @07:37PM (#23216572)

Hopefully we'll have better plans in place, and leaders willing to act on them for COVID-20. My point about T&T was that it doesn't work when you have 1M infections. It's ideal when an epidemic/pandemic first starts to show up. But for now, it's useless health theater.

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