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According to a new report from Harvard researchers, we may be social distancing for awhile to help mitigate COVID-19.
Earlier this afternoon, we reported on the downright scary news that apparently, Coronavirus has the ability to be transmitted even via a dead person. As scientists and researchers around the world race to come up with some sort of vaccine or treatment for the virus that is spreading at an astounding rate, a group of researchers at Harvard are saying we may need to social distance for a couple of years to come to stop the spread.

Researchers from Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health released a study in the Science journal that projects the transmission rate for COVID-19 post-pandemic, or rather, after the most severe wave of the pandemic, over the course of the next five years. The computer model looked at aspects like whether or not the virus is seasonal, and how long immunity lasts in recovered patients, and more to come to the decision that the virus will not be eliminated any time soon.

Based on the researchers' projections, they're claiming we may need to be social distancing from time to time until at least 2022, possibly 2024, in order to alleviate the pressure on hospitals etc, similar to our efforts right now.

The abstract for the paper reads, "Absent other interventions, a key metric for the success of social distancing is whether critical care capacities are exceeded. To avoid this, prolonged or intermittent social distancing may be necessary into 2022 ... Even in the event of apparent elimination, SARS-CoV-2 surveillance should be maintained since a resurgence in contagion could be possible as late as 2024."

On the flip side, the paper examined how if social distancing measures are too severe and too strict, it could be to the detriment of society-- in the sense that there will be no immunity at all built among the population.

Either way, the researchers are not advising one particular path over the other. "We do not take a position on the advisability of these scenarios given the economic burden that sustained distancing may impose, but we note the potentially catastrophic burden on the healthcare system that is predicted if distancing is poorly effective and-or not sustained for long enough."

yeah sure... like trump said that he wants to open everything again on april 14th

Yep lower socioeconomic backgrounds always get harder during things like this.

I don't understand how there predicting 60,000 deaths when we already have 25,000 is that still right??

They’re assumed we’re either close to peaking or did already

even if it goes down from now on (which wont happen) we would have over 60,000 deaths. the prediction is dumb as f***

True that it’s unfortunate that minorities are un proportionately suffering from this

I’m also a minority that grew up in poverty but am lucky that I put myself in a position to be working from home

Wasn’t last week supposed to be really bad?

was it really bad?

😱

It comes in waves. Whether or not s*** "peaks" means nothing when we ease off the lockdown restrictions and people start interacting again. Then you'll get another spike in cases.

This literally is the beginning, nothing has really even happened. We need to ramp up testing to a ridiculous degree and keep up the lockdown if we want to prevent deaths. But if those in charge want to reopen things to keep the economy afloat people will just die.

Can't believe we're gonna deal with this s*** for 18 months.

People will die either way

There’s no way people are going to put up with social distancing that much longer

If they want to live they will, but yes majority of people who are unemployed will want to get back to the workforce

Bruh never in my life have I been so eager to be back in the office

I miss working w my colleagues

The estimate is 60,000 deaths by August.

FEMA is projecting 125,000 by the end of the year with social distancing, but that is also assuming a worst case scenario where no effective treatment is found.

Projections are meaningless to the average citizen. Unless you have a say in when and how the economy opens, or how to prepare for medical surges, they don't matter to you.

Holy f***ing s***

"The Treasury Department has ordered President Trump’s name be printed on stimulus checks the Internal Revenue Service is rushing to send to tens of millions of Americans, a process that is expected to slow their delivery by several days, senior agency officials said.

The unprecedented decision, finalized late Monday, means that when recipients open the $1,200 paper checks the IRS is scheduled to begin sending to 70 million Americans in coming days, “President Donald J. Trump” will appear on the left side of the payment."

washingtonpost.com/politics/coming-to-your-1200-relief-check-donald-j-trumps-name/2020/04/14/071016c2-7e82-11ea-8013-1b6da0e4a2b7_story.html

People act like sheltering in place and closing all public places down is social distancing. It isn't that extreme.

Wearing face masks, standing 6 feet apart in line, limiting restaurant and bar capacity, telecommuting as much as possible, etc are all forms of social distancing. We are NOT going to be forced inside our houses all summer long.

I think if people actually try they’ll find they’ll acclimate it fairly quickly, it’ll become second nature.

Better to practice something that’s a little inconvenient and awkward for a year or two than be f***ing dead or debilitated for who knows how long.