Something I'm doing and recommend if you are able. Go to the local businesses that you frequent and buy a gift card. It helps them with some extra liquidity when they need it and you can go get the services when they don't, hopefully in a few months.
It's a well written and easy to understand article so there's that. 1.2 to 2.2 million deaths isn't credible because the premise for the article wasn't credible (no pharmaceutical intervention). it's worth reading and let's one know the need to get some treatments out there asap. treatments will be available long before there is a vaccine.
There you go again, Take this crap to the political thread and stop polluting this one.
The scariest part (to me) is that of the 4 Nets players who just tested positive, 3 are asymptomatic.
If the anti-virals come on line - and let's hope for everyone's sake that they do that soon - then, yes, the article's estimates are off. But there's no guarantee that whatever we come up with will work well enough to help the over 70 (yikes) crowd. The anti-virals for flu sorta work and, God knows, that's better then nothing. That won't help much with spread of the virus, however. There the "NPIs" (non-pharmaceutical interventions) will have to be what we depend on. I sure do hope we get more testing on line soon as well; the report recommends an on-an-off approach to social distancing based on hospital surveillance. No tests = no surveillance. But I think that part of the equation is now well in hand, no matter how late.
