My comment about the math showing how many are infected if you do nothing vs take evasive action to slow it down assumes there is no cure or treatment found. More area under the curve. Lower in my post I say an advantage of slowing it down via mitigatation (SIP, social distancing, washing hands, etc. ) IS there is time to change behavior while discovering treatments, cures and/or vaccines which of course lowers the total ultimately infected.
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Sad story in the news last night about an MD who got it in NY, went home and got better then went back to work and was so depressed she killed herself.
nytimes.com
Dr. Breen, 49, did not have a history of mental illness, her father said. But he said that when he last spoke with her, she seemed detached, and he could tell something was wrong. She had described to him an onslaught of patients who were dying before they could even be taken out of ambulances. “She was truly in the trenches of the front line,” he said. He added: “Make sure she’s praised as a hero, because she was. She’s a casualty just as much as anyone else who has died.”
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