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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump Wants a Quick Reopening. Data His Own White House Is Examining Shows It Could Be a Disaster
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-wants-a-quick-reopening-data-his-own-white-house-is-examining-shows-it-could-be-a-disaster
A mere two weeks of more social distancing could result in hundreds, if not thousands, of fewer COVID cases a day in individual counties.
Erin Banco
National Security Reporter
Published May. 06, 2020 10:28PM ET
One of the studies that the Trump administration is relying on as it moves ahead with plans to reopen the U.S. economy, warns that even if states take the necessary steps to ease social distancing restrictions, counties across the countryboth big and smallwill see a significant spread of coronavirus.
The study, which was put together by PolicyLab at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, is in the hands of top coronavirus task force officials and those working with the team, sources confirmed to The Daily Beast. It projects that if officials move too quickly and too aggressively to reopen in mid May, individual counties could witness hundreds, if not a thousand-plus, more coronavirus cases reported each day by August 1. A mere two weeks more of social distancing, the study projects, could result in substantial progress in keeping infections downwith potentially hundreds of thousands of fewer cases if the projections are conservatively expanded out to all 3,000-plus counties across the country.
The modeling shows that those counties exist in various parts of the country, including in both urban and rural communities. In almost all cases, counties would see notably less cases per day if they waited to ease social distancing restrictions until June 1, according to the studys projections. The model also suggests that states moving to ease restrictions should consider allowing individual counties to craft their own policies. Under the projections, one county could experience significantly different daily case numbers than others in the stateeven those nearbymerely by continuing to adhere to social distancing protocols.
Theres going to be transmission if people stop sheltering in place, Dr. Rubin, the director of PolicyLab at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, said in an interview. Its not that all [counties] are safe to reopen. Every area is extremely sensitive to the amount of distancing youre doing. The more cautious you are the better.
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A mere two weeks of more social distancing could result in hundreds, if not thousands, of fewer COVID cases a day in individual counties.
Erin Banco
National Security Reporter
Published May. 06, 2020 10:28PM ET
One of the studies that the Trump administration is relying on as it moves ahead with plans to reopen the U.S. economy, warns that even if states take the necessary steps to ease social distancing restrictions, counties across the countryboth big and smallwill see a significant spread of coronavirus.
The study, which was put together by PolicyLab at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, is in the hands of top coronavirus task force officials and those working with the team, sources confirmed to The Daily Beast. It projects that if officials move too quickly and too aggressively to reopen in mid May, individual counties could witness hundreds, if not a thousand-plus, more coronavirus cases reported each day by August 1. A mere two weeks more of social distancing, the study projects, could result in substantial progress in keeping infections downwith potentially hundreds of thousands of fewer cases if the projections are conservatively expanded out to all 3,000-plus counties across the country.
The modeling shows that those counties exist in various parts of the country, including in both urban and rural communities. In almost all cases, counties would see notably less cases per day if they waited to ease social distancing restrictions until June 1, according to the studys projections. The model also suggests that states moving to ease restrictions should consider allowing individual counties to craft their own policies. Under the projections, one county could experience significantly different daily case numbers than others in the stateeven those nearbymerely by continuing to adhere to social distancing protocols.
Theres going to be transmission if people stop sheltering in place, Dr. Rubin, the director of PolicyLab at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, said in an interview. Its not that all [counties] are safe to reopen. Every area is extremely sensitive to the amount of distancing youre doing. The more cautious you are the better.
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Trump Wants a Quick Reopening. Data His Own White House Is Examining Shows It Could Be a Disaster (Original Post)
Dennis Donovan
May 2020
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LizBeth
(9,952 posts)1. Beginning of June, second week of June, it would have looked so differently.
Way back in middle of March I told my bosses take off April and May.
at140
(6,110 posts)2. Cuomo says it's 'shocking' most new covid hospitalizations are people who had been staying home
Early look at data from 100 New York hospitals shows that 66% of new admissions related to the virus are people who were at home, Cuomo said.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/06/ny-gov-cuomo-says-its-shocking-most-new-coronavirus-hospitalizations-are-people-staying-home.html
Eyeball_Kid
(7,430 posts)3. Not much you can do
when Trump gets in a killing mood.
Hes willfully refusing to save lives easily, you know. In more than a few cultures, thats considered either manslaughter or murder. When mental health folks say that Trump has no conscience, this is what they mean. This is why Trump is more dangerous than most of us can imagine. Extreme power with no conscience. Jeez.
qazplm135
(7,447 posts)4. and yet his voters
wont blame him...anyone or anything but him.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)5. He wants a disaster, so he can blame it on someone else.
Las Vegas Mixx
(293 posts)6. Every Disaster Movie ...