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I know there are ways this plan could go sideways, and I think it’s vitally important to listen to the public health people who are concerned about the operational details. But I also don’t see a way out before next year except for maybe this one. https://twitter.com/j_g_allen/status/1294600163244347392
I think @alexismadrigal and @yayitsrob did an absolutely incredible job digging into testing strategies, risks, and possibilities here https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/08/how-to-test-every-american-for-covid-19-every-day/615217/
Also, as someone neck-deep in the numbers, I think it borders on delusional to claim—as testing plateaus and declines and backs up and is delayed—that our current testing is sufficient. And we *clearly* can’t scale individual PCR tests enough to beat Covid anytime soon.
Limping along in this purgatorial condition, letting Covid kill a thousand people a day and wreck thousands more lives, is just not a thing we can accept. We gave up on doing things the right way. We lost that war. Now we have to do whatever we still can.
It took me a week of short pieces of time to read @edyong209’s magnum opus on the way we failed bc I just couldn’t handle it all at once but imo it’s the canonical history to date https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/09/coronavirus-american-failure/614191/
