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.”

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

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“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.”