At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, infectious disease expert Dr. Amesh Adalja wrote that the impending crisis was entirely avoidable. Despite warnings from Dr. Adalja and other experts, public officials refused to listen until it was too late.
Driven by panic at a crisis they ignored for too long, policy makers are considering imposing mandatory prolonged social distancing measures, the cascading effects of which may be worse than those of the virus itself. Economic shutdowns, travel bans, border closures, rising unemployment, shortages of vital goods — all predicted in numerous tabletop exercises — are what we now face.
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