Who wants to live in a world of fear and isolation?
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The public is entitled to see detailed data on hotspots and the data can be used to reassure people about their real risk.
As usual, so much being published that it is hard to keep up with it all.
Some big-picture Minnesota model observations and some real Minnesota data.
The numbers haven’t changed in terms of the extreme difference in death rates across the age spectrum.
Here are some important questions to guide policymaking going forward.
Once again, we are going to end up where we should have gone in the first place, and that looks a lot like the Swedish strategy.
You can feel the shift in sentiment on government actions regarding the epidemic.
I have to dash off a quick note this morning in response to the media’s usual alarmist reactions, this time to some resurgence of cases in places like China and South Korea. This supposedly illustrates how dangerous it is to relax extreme lockdowns, but what it really reveals is how futile they are and how they are just going to delay the inevitable. The harder you lockdown and suppress spread, the more likely you feel like you can’t ever let up. And it should be clear from these examples that the virus isn’t really going anywhere. These countries, or in the US, states or localities, are condemning themselves to more economic pain and more deaths than if they had a strategy of letting the virus run its course through the vast low and no-risk population, which would create immunity that protects the vulnerable.