Yahoo Finance Video•March 13, 2020:
https://finance.yahoo.com/video/dr-m...145547356.html
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The impact of the coronavirus is continuing to escalate, and Johns Hopkins University Professor of Public Health Dr. Marty Makary says, "I think we have between 50,000 and half a million cases right now walking around in the United States". He joins Yahoo Finance's On the Move panel to discuss.
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Johns Hopkins University Professor of Public Health Dr. Marty Makary explains that our healthcare system has been operating at something close to full capacity - BEFORE the coronavirus outbreak.
He also explains that, like Italy, our healthcare system doesn't have the number of ICU beds needed to deal with a sudden spike in ICU patients.
FWIW, my takeaway is that the medical community realized pretty early on that, left unchecked, Covid-19 will spread around the world on an exponential growth curve.
I think our medical community is looking at the growth curve and is saying in no uncertain terms we need to flatten it.
Otherwise, our healthcare system could be overrun. (Just like Italy.)
Imo, if we had a vaccine things would be different. (But we don't.)
Without a vaccine how do we flatten the growth curve?
Shutting down direct air travel from China while they were in the middle of their outbreak was a way to flatten the growth curve here in the US.
Shutting down direct air travel from Europe while Italy is in the middle of their outbreak and the rest of Europe is in the early stages of theirs is a way to flatten the growth curve here in the US.
Canceling sports that draw a big crowd, closing schools, closing theme parks like Disneyland, etc. is another way to do flatten the growth curve now that we are in the early stages of our outbreak here in the US.
My thoughts for what they are worth.
-jp
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