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Friday, March 20, 2020

An Optimistic Plan for Battling the COVID-19

Hey Folks!
We're facing a new challenge in a new time. Luckily there are a lot of intelligent people thinking and sharing ways that we can battle the COVID-19 Coronavirus. Trevor Bedford is a scientist who examines viruses, evolution, and immunity at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. He outlined a 19-point plan for not simply containing, but fighting COVID-19. Here's a summary:
     1. Drastically increase testing through mailed home tests and drive-up and mail-in testing.
     2. Track cell phone location history for all the places that positive individuals visited.
     3. Test any people in those locations.
     4. Find the people who test positive but show no symptoms and identify the antibodies in their blood serum that provide immunity through serological assays.
     5. Once people are identified as immune and not shedding the virus, they can return to the work force.
Going out as little as possible is crucial right now. The less people physically contact each other, the less chance for viral transmission, the less work there will be for epidemiologists to research. Testing, tracking, and isolation can help us beat this thing!   

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