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COVID Update August 2: If someone told you, you could save somebody’s life, your answer would be what do I have to do?
With thousands of people dying every week from a virus that now even the White House admits is out of control, our odds of saving lives have never been better.
Johns Hopkins has a model for how many people will die between now and November 1 if we do nothing different. It is 70,000, a number year ago that would have been unthinkable to imagine if it’s not unimaginable now.
70,000 in 3 months.
70,000 in 3 months.
COVID Update July 26: We can virtually eliminate the virus any time we decide to. 1/
We can be back to a reasonably normal existence: schools, travel, job growth, safer nursing homes & other settings.
And we could do it in a matter of weeks. If we want to. 2/
And we could do it in a matter of weeks. If we want to. 2/
Take New Zealand. With its fancy curve and life back to normal. Why can’t we? 3/ 
COVID Update July 25: Right now in this crisis, good or bad is less important than early or late.
If saving lives is important to your mayor & governor, they need to be early to action. 1/
If saving lives is important to your mayor & governor, they need to be early to action. 1/
Acting to close bars & require masks BEFORE hospital beds fill is a bit like wearing a condom. It’s more effective before the act.
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(Don’t be concerned. I won’t be taking that analogy any further.) 3/
