...So now we can begin to understand that this virus attacks the circulatory system, it attacks the vascular and nervous systems, it attacks the respiratory system, it attacks our ability to bring in oxygen.
...We have a very large number of deaths due to kidney failure, .
...the big surprise to me is the kind of pan-organ nature of its attack. It gives the lie to anybody who thought that a comparison with influenza was in the ballpark.
...It’s certainly pernicious. This is the worst pandemic in our lifetime. And it is the first time we have had a pandemic in the United States in which we have had such a total, abysmal failure of our federal government.
...we have to do three different things. First, we have to develop a way to deal with the clusters... Japan, which had similar problems, and they created a team which called the Cluster Busters
...The second thing that we should be doing is basic epidemiology 101. We should be finding every active case. ... all the people they’ve been in contact with, looking backwards to try to find where the disease came from, what was their source of the disease.
...third thing?
A sensible, nationwide requirement for those places where there are clearly going to be super-spreader events to stay closed: bars, indoor restaurants, churches, megachurches, the kinds of places that we know will spread the disease. Those places can’t be reopened.
... It is an equal opportunity infector. It is not an equal opportunity killer. If you are old, you are going to have a reduced immune system. If you’re poor and you’re somebody who has hypertension and diabetes and is more obese, which is the African American community, you are in more danger. Or if you are living in a jail where you can’t social distance.
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