{"id":2768,"date":"2020-05-20T16:07:16","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T16:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2768"},"modified":"2020-05-20T16:07:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T16:07:16","slug":"lockdowns-worked-now-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2768","title":{"rendered":"Lockdowns worked. Now what?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/3\/10\/21171481\/coronavirus-us-cases-quarantine-cancellation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Flattening the curve<\/a>&nbsp;through social distancing has worked in restraining&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/coronavirus-covid19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Covid-19\u2019s<\/a>&nbsp;growth, according to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthaffairs.org\/doi\/pdf\/10.1377\/hlthaff.2020.00608\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>new research<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;published in Health Affairs.&#8221;&nbsp;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;The goal of flattening the curve was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/4\/7\/21201260\/coronavirus-usa-chart-mask-shortage-ventilators-flatten-the-curve\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">to prevent local health systems from becoming overwhelmed<\/a>, which could have led to even higher fatalities than the US has already seen (about 90,000, as of Monday morning). Even New York City, the hardest-hit place in the country,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/04\/10\/nyregion\/new-york-coronavirus-hospitals.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>has not seen its hospitals overrun<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;in any kind of systemic way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take together the reduced spread through social distancing and the medical system being able to meet the Covid-19 need, and there is solid evidence that flattening the curve has worked.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;\u201cIn principle, the measures also bought time to develop a more effective testing and contact tracing infrastructure, although we will see whether that actually has been achieved as states start to reopen.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/5\/18\/21262528\/coronavirus-us-state-lockdown-stay-at-home-orders-study\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/5\/18\/21262528\/coronavirus-us-state-lockdown-stay-at-home-orders-study<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Flattening the curve through social distancing has worked in restraining Covid-19\u2019s growth, according to new research published in Health Affairs.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The goal of flattening the curve was to prevent local health systems from becoming overwhelmed, which could have led to even higher fatalities than the US has already seen (about 90,000, as of Monday morning). Even New York City, the hardest-hit place in the country, has not seen its hospitals overrun in any kind of systemic way.<br \/>\nTake together the reduced spread through social distancing and the medical system being able to meet the Covid-19 need, and there is solid evidence that flattening the curve has worked.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;\u201cIn principle, the measures also bought time to develop a more effective testing and contact tracing infrastructure, although we will see whether that actually has been achieved as states start to reopen.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[588,409,483,809,531,701],"class_list":["post-2768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-corona","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-lockdowns","tag-quarantine","tag-social-distancing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2769,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768\/revisions\/2769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}