Trump needs to worry about the stock market less, and pandemic preparedness more

“What we are realistically looking at now is not containment of a virus that is already on multiple continents, but efforts to mitigate the harm that it does by slowing its spread.”

“Even with effective mitigation a lot of people get sick, but the caseload is spread out and society can continue to function.”

“Mitigation is essentially what the world is doing now. We are slowing the spread of the disease, both from place to place and within the hardest-hit countries.”