Is Our Fight Against Coronavirus Worse Than the Disease? nyti.ms/2J1v53h Excellent outline of hard trade-offs we face via @Yale @nytopinion @DrDavidKatz. It’s not just the trade-off between health and economics. A devastated economy itself has bad health effects.
Part of the problem is that politics also plays a role. Even if it were wisest from both a public health & an economic point of you to let the pandemic wash over us, how would Americans respond if we had battlefield triage conditions in our hospitals and people were turned away?
And if tens of thousands of people start getting sick and dying, because we let the pandemic wash over us, we might wind up both with an economic depression and with mass death. These are all tremendously difficult policy trade-offs that require practiced and careful modeling.
