At this point, the focus should include effective treatment strategies. There’s no way this is going to be contained.
“At this point, the focus should include effective treatment strategies. There’s no way this is going to be contained.”
The focus should be on both containment AND treatment. Those are separate problems that should be dealt with simultaneously.
Containment, even if it ultimately fails, gives us more time to develop treatment options and capacity. It will save lives.
“At this point, the focus should include effective treatment strategies. There’s no way this is going to be contained.”
Slowing it down so the hit on our emergency response is spread out over time rather than all at once is important. I agree with you, it can’t be contained any more than the flu can be contained. But we still have no idea what “not contained” looks like in a Western nation.
Combine that with what has to be a long-run project of making us less dependent on China, or for that matter on any nation, for almost all pharmaceuticals, N95 masks, rare earths, microprocessors and much more. Our supply chain of critical material MUST be diversified. That will take years.
If this virus is not a 1918 Flu level killer, it may be the best thing that happened to the United States if it pushes us ahead with that diversification.