1. They need to test EVERYBODY, and isolate only people who test positive, and their immediate contacts. Let everybody else go back to work. That’s what they did in Hong Kong and Singapore and Taiwan.
Trump and Pence have get tests rolling out pronto; do it state by state if necessary, a bit at a time. BUT DO IT!
What we’ve got now is incompetence. They can’t allow the economy to be closed much longer. Even during the Depression the economy stayed open, we had businesses running and restaurants serving.
Trump has to widen his advisers beyond Fauci and Birx. Two people whose jobs and salaries and pensions are guaranteed no matter how much pain they cause everyone else. Bring in some public health experts from Singapore, they’ll show us how to do it!
Trying to bend the curve with a total lockdown works on the medical side [except for NYC], but it also extends the burn through period and makes the lock down last longer and longer.
Your solution [already validated elsewhere] is the way to go.
Past time to change course.