Summary of the article: Strong coronavirus measures today should only last a few weeks, there shouldnโt be a big peak of infections afterwards, and it can all be done for a reasonable cost to society, saving millions of lives along the way. If we donโt take these measures, tens of millions will be infected, many will die, along with anybody else that requires intensive care, because the healthcare system will have collapsed. [Note: This article contains numerous informative infographics.]
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Here is how the Imperial College team modeled suppressions.
The green and yellow lines are different scenarios of Suppression. You can see that doesnโt look good: We still get huge peaks, so why bother?
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Presented like these, the two options of Mitigation and Suppression, side by side, donโt look very appealing. Either a lot of people die soon and we donโt hurt the economy today, or we hurt the economy today, just to postpone the deaths.
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This ignores the value of time.
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What if you were about to face your worst enemy, of which you knew very little, and you had two options: Either you run towards it, or you escape to buy yourself a bit of time to prepare. Which one wouldย youย choose?
This is what we need to do today. The world has awakened. Every single day we delay the coronavirus, we can get better prepared.
