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  1. FredGoodhue Coolidge
    FredGoodhue
    @FredGoodhue

    Christine Rosen is right.  The open office should die.

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  2. Sal Reagan
    Sal
    @Sal

    Love the daily podcast episodes!

    I think that the way out of this is through more testing data that will delineate precisely the risks to various populations and allow more fine-grained measures that take into account the real risks.

    As information on how widely the virus has spread comes in from serology tests applied randomly (3 such studies are under way in the US, one has been done in German) we will begin to get a real picture of how deadly the virus is in the broad population. I suspect that it will break down along age groups and health status. It will be discovered that for the young and healthy it’s not big deal. The group will be encouraged to resume their work while preserving vestiges of the hygienic and distancing rules we have been practicing. The old and vulnerable will continue to be in extreme seclusion until there is (if there is) an effective vaccine.

    Two items point towards this bifurcation.  The first is the case of a nursing home in leafy Belmont, MA where, at last report, 116 of 132 residents have contracted COVID-19, 30 of whom have died. The second is Columbia University Medical Center testing all women presenting at the hospital for delivery from 3/22 to 4/4 for COVID-19. Of the 215 tested 15.4% were positive; of those testing positive, almost 88% were asymptomatic at the time.  This may mean that for women of childbearing age COVID-19 is not something to be in a tizzy about. My hunch is that we are going to have to tighten up even more the restrictions for the vulnerable populations (prediction: machine vision will be applied to detecting staff behavior that could transmit the disease at nursing homes; something like this is in the works for fast food restaurants). As to the young and healthy, they should get back to work as soon as possible and quit being in a panic.

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  3. Penfold Member
    Penfold
    @Penfold

    John, you can’t keep hyperventilating like this.  It’s not healthy.

     

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