2020: 20 million Americans got COVID.
How well could we have done?
If we had done as well as
Germany: 14 million fewer;
South Korea, Australia, New Zealand: >19.5 million fewer.
@ASlavitt had a thread on this 6 months ago. It’s still holds true.
How well could we have done?
If we had done as well as
Germany: 14 million fewer;
South Korea, Australia, New Zealand: >19.5 million fewer.
@ASlavitt had a thread on this 6 months ago. It’s still holds true.
We had 350,000 deaths due to COVID.
How well could we have done?
If we had done as well as Germany: 200,000 fewer deaths;
South Korea, Australia, New Zealand: >300,000 fewer deaths.
How well could we have done?
If we had done as well as Germany: 200,000 fewer deaths;
South Korea, Australia, New Zealand: >300,000 fewer deaths.
What went wrong? What could we have done better. The overriding problem was failure of leadership, lack of strategy, and mixed messaging.
We lost our standing as a country to look up for expertise in solving a public health problem. That’s going to be hard to get back.
We lost our standing as a country to look up for expertise in solving a public health problem. That’s going to be hard to get back.
Having fantastic scientific minds is different than harnessing them to come up with a coherent strategy and delivering a clear and unified public health message.
We also don’t have a monopoly on the best scientific minds or strategies. We could learn from other countries.
We also don’t have a monopoly on the best scientific minds or strategies. We could learn from other countries.
Even now it is astonishing that we are giving grand advice to others on whether they are right to give 1 dose or 2 doses.
Let’s first do our own homework. We should have vaccinated 20 million people. We have vaccinated 4 million.
Let’s first do our own homework. We should have vaccinated 20 million people. We have vaccinated 4 million.
Anyway. Here is an old thread on 10 factors that in retrospect played a role in why we, with all the wealth and resources, and world class agencies and epidemiologists, ended up in the Top 10 countries in the world for COVID.
https://twitter.com/vincentrk/status/1299436914106392576
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
