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Re:London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline by redisman on Saturday May 23, 2020 @06:49PM (#23287299)
How would the hospital load look like in the US today without lockdowns?
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Re:London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline by ls612 on Saturday May 23, 2020 @07:34PM (#23287609)
In New York? They’d be fucked. In most of the rest of the country? Simply canceling sporting events, concerts, conventions, and other mass gatherings would probably have been enough. Even the CDC is now saying surface transmission is highly unlikely and that the aforementioned superspreading events were disproportionately responsible for the early exponential growth,
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Re:London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline by ceejayoz on Saturday May 23, 2020 @07:50PM (#23287720)
You don’t need a giant gathering to have a potential superspreading event.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/23/missouri-hai...

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