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To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (36046)	3/18/2020 7:20:34 PM
From: ph57	Respond to of 73149

I was merely pointing out that you cannot absolve the Trump administration of dragging their feet in order to "keep their numbers low" by pointing to their shutting down travel from infected areas. Besides, it has not been enough. The counter examples are Taiwan and Singapore, who emphasized testing and contact tracing. The mortality rate in South Korea is .5 percent. In Italy, because they dragged their feet on social distancing and found their health system overwhelmed, it is as high as 5%. Taiwan, Singapore, and South Korea did not skimp on preparation for a pandemic, after their experience with SARS. We did. What everybody is realizing (most conspicuously, in how UK and US have changed course 180 degrees as late as yesterday, after seeing the predictions by the Neil Ferguson report, from Imperial College in London) is that we need to impose social distancing, or we will find our health infrastructure overwhelmed, and a lot of patients condemned to death because there are not enough ICU beds or ventilators, or because doctors or nurses did not have enough protective gear and are in quarantine. Basically, in the face of exponential spread of the disease, every day matters.