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pat_k

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2. Added an If...

Reply to gibraltar72 (Reply #1)

Sun Mar 29, 2020, 06:49 PM

Mar 2020

I added this "If..." to what our government could have/should have done.

-- If federal authorities paid attention to epidemiologist models and health expert metrics of projected incidence, hospitalizations, actual resources vs. needed resources, and began to source and use powers to order increased production of PPE, ventilators, and put plans in place for how to address possible/probably shortage of beds.

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Timeline and failures -- lost shot at containment [View all] pat_k Mar 2020 OP

You forgot if doctors and nurses hadn't stolen supplies. gibraltar72 Mar 2020 #1

Added an If... pat_k Mar 2020 #2

You've done a lot of study. All I got is my gut and common sense. gibraltar72 Mar 2020 #3

The travel bans were window dressing after community spread began. Hermit-The-Prog Mar 2020 #4