This Is How We Can Beat the Coronavirus
This Is How We Can Beat the Coronavirus
Section titled “This Is How We Can Beat the Coronavirus”
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Section titled “Metadata”- Author: Aaron E. Carroll, Ashish Jha
- Full Title: This Is How We Can Beat the Coronavirus
- Category: #articles
- URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/how-we-beat-coronavirus/608389/
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Section titled “Highlights”- With serious mitigation, though, many of the measures we’re taking now slow things down. By the summer, the report calculates, the number of people who become sick will eventually reduce to a trickle. On this path, though, the real horror show will begin in the fall and crush us next winter, when COVID-19 comes back with a vengeance. This is what happened with the flu in 1918. The spring was bad. Over the summer, the numbers of sick dwindled and created a false sense of security. Then, all hell broke loose. In late 1918, tens of millions of people died.