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by dragonwriter 2280 days ago
> What no one is talking about is how much social distancing/isolation is needed to avoid hospital saturation.

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/s...

People are talking about it, that talk is driving policy, and the answer is “with some local adjustments possible based on caseload, until there is an effective vaccine developed and deployed, which will probably be 18+ months”, and the alternative is a truly catastrophic number of fatalities.