Social Distancing 1 Week Earlier Would Have Saved 36,000 Americans:
"The U.S. could have avoided nearly 36,000 deaths caused by the coronavirus through early May if stay-at-home orders and other social-distancing restrictions were implemented just one week earlier, a new study from Columbia University researchers shows.
The study, which focused on transmission in metropolitan areas, found that social-distancing measures adopted throughout the nation after March 15 "effectively reduced rates of COVID-19 transmission."
The researchers estimated that had the measures been instituted just one week earlier that the U.S. may have avoided more than 700,000 confirmed cases of the virus and as many as 35,927 deaths that it caused.
The researchers also estimated that if lockdown measures were instituted as early as March 1,
approximately 54,000 fewer people would have died by May 3."
The Hill
Just like John Oliver SAID!
"
Just losing days in a pandemic which can spread exponentially is
a huge problem, but an entire month is absolutely
CATASTROPHIC. "
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