Coronavirus
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Is Our Fight Against Coronavirus Worse Than the Disease?
There may be more targeted ways to beat the pandemic.By David L. Katz
Dr. Katz is the founding director of the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/…
"I am deeply concerned that the social, economic and public health consequences of this near total meltdown of normal life — schools and businesses closed, gatherings banned — will be long lasting and calamitous, possibly graver than the direct toll of the virus itself. The stock market will bounce back in time, but many businesses never will. The unemployment, impoverishment and despair likely to result will be public health scourges of the first order.
Worse, I fear our efforts will do little to contain the virus, because we have a resource-constrained, fragmented, perennially underfunded public health system. Distributing such limited resources so widely, so shallowly and so haphazardly is a formula for failure. How certain are you of the best ways to protect your most vulnerable loved ones? How readily can you get tested?"
Damn!
- Yeah i thought about this too.. but at the same what's the solution? We can't let the virus spread without doing anything. I don't know.Bennn