Originally Posted by
SamirD
It seems that travel has had a huge impact on transmission. Since there aren't enough resources to 'filter' this between people in close proximity in the US, would a country-wide home quarantine help to halt the spread? Because that's what we're heading towards anyways--the difference is that a percentage of people will be critically sick.
It likely would but the economical impact would be immense. You have to try and strike a fine balance between underreacting and overreacting. You basically have no chance of completely containing it, so now you're just trying to keep the rate of new infections below a rate that would overwhelm hospitals with critical cases.