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Old Mar 8, 2020 | 7:30 pm
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You should watch today's Face the Nation, if possible, it has a lot of interesting interviews:
https://www.cbs.com/shows/face-the-n...cott-gottlieb/

Sen. Murphy discusses some obvious stuff about lack of testing preparedness, how we should have been either producing our own tests since early January, or have used the ones from abroad. There is also discussion how we should be working on revising work policies, paid sick leaves, providing child care assistance, etc. now, which we don't do, as severe social distancing and economic disruption measures are coming.

Former FDA Commissioner Gottlieb said we have two months ahead of us of rapid acceleration of the disease, and touch economic and social distancing measures. He also mentioned that an economic bailout will come anyway, but should be done now upfront to help people do the right thing, not after the fact, when it is too late. He said that the CFR will end up being 1% (fatality ratio of those who become symptomatic), and he mentioned that COVID-19 shows a more binary picture either light symptoms, or very severe and critical, with not much in between (contrary to other types of flu). He said that the federal government should be providing consistent guidelines/recommendations and comprehensive support for implementing social distancing measures around the country, such as school/business closures, etc., and not leave this to the local communities, because they will act idiosyncratically and risk their health care systems getting overwhelmed easily, possibly resulting in a Wuhan style situation with 6% fatality rates.
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