U.S. Lockdown One Week Earlier Would Have Saved 36,000 Lives, Study Finds

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U.S. Lockdown One Week Earlier Would Have Saved 36,000 Lives, Study Finds

WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN

Blake Montgomery, Reporter

Published May. 20, 2020

https://www.thedailybeast.com/us-coronavirus-lockdown-one-week-earlier-would-have-saved-36000-lives-study-finds?ref=home0

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The United States could have saved 36,000 lives had it instituted widespread anti-coronavirus measures around March 7, a week earlier than most states and cities did, a study from Columbia University found. Two weeks earlier, and 54,000 coronavirus victims would still be alive, researchers estimated. The pandemic devastated cities and shocked the American economy in a matter of weeks. The lead epidemiologist on the study, Jeffrey Shaman, told The New York Times, “It’s a big, big difference. That small moment in time, catching it in that growth phase, is incredibly critical in reducing the number of deaths.” 

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[Worried2020]

1. Yeah - us brainiacs in North America really fucked this one up

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OK, so we are not fond of China and all, but we KNEW they locked down Wuhan months ago.

Yep - we got the most baddest war-machine on the planet, but not enuf brains to defend ourselves from an invisible bug.

But hey -

We can scream blame China for this, blame Russia for that, and so on . . . .

Maybe we should take a closer look at their leaders,

and ours?



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4. Canada did close a week or two earlier by size of outbreak, our outbreak

was behind yours as alot of ours came from europe through NY City. We have 1/3 to 1/2 per capita of the outbreak you had (ve). Like the numbers say .....

[Doodley]

2. And if we had a president that told people to wear a mask we would have saved many more.

[sop]

3. Months from now, what will they find about the number of deaths caused by opening up too early?

[oasis]

5. Trump will have his day of reckoning Nov. 3rd.

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6. And just think if he hadn't wasted January and Febuary holding eight, huge rallies...

and taking six golf trips. Obama was on top of the ebola outbreak in Africa, with medical experts on the ground there, which resulted in only two cases coming to this country, and just one death, if I recall correctly.

If handled in a timely manner by a sentient president, this could've been just a blip on the radar here, just as ebola was.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

7. It's compound devastation -- save early or pay with lives and economic misery.