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The U.S. Can Still Curtail Coronavirus But Only With Better Testing
We can’t make better data-based decisions until we have better data.
Like this, but all over the country.
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It is not too late to stem the predicted tide of Covid-19 in the United States. The key is getting widespread testing in place immediately.
Shanghai’s remarkable success at curtailing the coronavirus shows how successful testing can be: As the disease spread to thousands in nearby Wuhan, modelers around the world predicted that the dense megacity of Shanghai would soon see 800,000 to a million cases. As of Saturday, it had vastly defied all predictions with the city’s population of 30 million showing a total close to 300 cases and as of last weekend, two deaths.