I think the main thing to do is to safeguard the over 60 and immune-impaired.
Within weeks probably 50 million people will have been exposed.
Older folks in the Seattle and Westchester areas need to buy their food and shelter at home.
The government should try to distribute nitrile gloves and alcohol wipes to vulnerable households.
Before going to a grocery store a sink full of soap water should be made ready to wash off purchased fruit and dairy.
An older person should put one pair of gloves on when going inside a store and take them off after loading groceries into their car. An alcohol pad should be used to wipe off their payment card after using it.
The older person should put on another pair for unloading.
Ordinary groceries should not be put away but say left in the living room for say ten days.
Fruit, bread wrapping and daily/meat containers should be washed off using the soapy water.
Alcohol pads should be used to wipe off door handles.
They have stripped the shelves of Alcohol. Will Vodka work?