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Stopping every transmission isn’t necessary. We just need some way to drive R < 1.

China’s approach (lots of temperature taking, testing everyone with a fever) might not eradicate the disease here, but it could keep it manageable until a vaccine is deployed.




Yes, you are the voice of reason! R of .9 is just fine. Pushing R to 0 is unnecessarily costly.




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