If we knew funding was coming to ramp up a coordinated testing strategy, we could push short-term social distancing hard to flatten the curve to the point where #TestTraceIsolate is feasible again. npr.org/sections/healt…
But the Senate bill doesn’t provide enough funding for that to work. So, what we’re left with is a much less ambitious goal. We can tighten business closures & gathering limits as needed from place to place & time to time to slow the spread & protect health care capacity
Given the near-total abdication of federal responsibility for implementing a well-funded & coordinated testing strategy, state & local governments need to be clear about what social distancing can and can’t achieve on its own. It can blunt peak impacts.
Here’s what’s coming across loud & clear in the Senate bill: The federal plan is “you’re on your own.”
