- A group of international researchers has published a new analysis of how countries around the world can best get the coronavirus pandemic under control in their areas.
- The basic idea is an on-off cycle of lockdowns and relaxation. Specifically, an alternating cycle of 50 days of strict lockdown followed by 30 days of easing, which the researchers think is an ideal solution for reducing the number of COVID-19 deaths.
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Early on in the coronavirus pandemic in the US, back in early March, a Medium post went viral that offered a way forward in terms of what the best and least onerous response to the COVID-19 outbreak should be. The writer used the following images to describe it: The hammer, and the dance.
The hammer refers to the all-at-once, abrupt, dramatic lockdowns in response to a spike in cases, a spike that could threaten to overwhelm an area’s health care resources. Once that surge begins to subside, then you can begin “the dance” — the less-precise, more open-ended return to normal that lets people and businesses get back to what they were doing before, albeit within strict limits. And if the surge returns? You guessed it. The hammer comes back down again. Rinse, repeat. “Strong coronavirus measures today should only last a few weeks, there shouldn’t be a big peak of infections afterward, and it can all be done for a reasonable cost to society, saving millions of lives along the way,” the piece argues — and a new study from international researchers is now pretty much calling for the same thing.
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