Just thought that I would drop this Twitter thread from one of the most knowledgeable Healthcare Bloggers: Andy Slavitt-
COVID Update May 6: Like many countries we picked a strategy to beat COVID-19. We just decided not to stick to it. 1/
— Andy Slavitt 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 (@ASlavitt) May 6, 2020
#StayHome was a first step to flatten the curve. We reduced the infection rate likely from a number between 2 and 3 to closer to 1.
Given exponential math & limited supplies & resources, this likely saved 10s if not 100s of thousands of lives. 3/
— Andy Slavitt 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 (@ASlavitt) May 6, 2020
A new kind of lazy thinking has made its way into the intellectual and kind-of anti-intellectual dialogue. (I’ve had 4 different news anchors ask me to respond to how @ChrisChristie thinks we should approach pandemic response.)5/
— Andy Slavitt 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 (@ASlavitt) May 6, 2020
They want a start a food fight of hardened realists who can tolerate death to “get our country back” & the “public health mafia” who are willing to kill the economy for the sake of a few people who will die soon anyway.7/
— Andy Slavitt 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 (@ASlavitt) May 6, 2020
There are is a major fallacy here. There is no plan by Chris Christie or otherwise to bring the economy back without addressing our public health crisis. 9/
— Andy Slavitt 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 (@ASlavitt) May 6, 2020
This may build into a big food fight to preoccupy & entertain us with something besides dealing with the actual virus. But I don’t need to be invited to debate opportunities on the topic.11/
— Andy Slavitt 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 (@ASlavitt) May 6, 2020
Rather than wait, Trump grew impatient. He wants life to go back to the way it was before the pandemic. He wants the economy growing.
I don’t know how to explain it to him but let me try.13/
— Andy Slavitt 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 (@ASlavitt) May 6, 2020
Trump acts like keeping Americans safe is a bridge too far. 16/
— Andy Slavitt 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 (@ASlavitt) May 6, 2020
Let’s take a look.
*Hong Kong— oh, but they’re an island. Yes. So is Manhattan. Contagion on a dense island can be a disaster.
*New Zealand— oh, but they’re remote. Well they had a color coded warning system like we announced. But they stuck with it.18/— Andy Slavitt 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 (@ASlavitt) May 6, 2020
Point is— this can be done. Not perfectly. Not without loss of life. Not with a perfect economy but with testing & tracing & masks, it’s a strategy if you can stick to it. 20/
— Andy Slavitt 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 (@ASlavitt) May 6, 2020
I fear it is all just beginning…
https://twitter.com/icaito/status/1261434407459500032
https://twitter.com/StephReads/status/1261426302621491208
https://twitter.com/JonEasley/status/1261348577214902274
https://twitter.com/monthly/status/1261386824502530048
https://twitter.com/BritishVogue/status/1261516943498063873
https://twitter.com/Jasamgurlie/status/1261431999060938759
https://twitter.com/democracynow/status/1261357182173380608
😠😠😠😠
https://twitter.com/MeritLaw/status/1261349198206832641
Vigilante thrill-killers think people are judging them unfairly…
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1261119028841582596
https://twitter.com/eji_org/status/1261280174017921024
I’m all in…
https://twitter.com/jackcalifano/status/1261060450927562752
Good Morning, Everyone 😊😊😊