COVID-19

“It's nowhere near as lethal as Ebola, but its scale is likely to be much higher than Ebola. And so the total number of people hospitalized or killed by it may be much larger.”

“All the evidence we have indicates that the absolute number of hospitalizations and deaths when this hits an area is very high. Even if it is true there's lots and lots of mild cases, the N is so large that it overwhelms the medical system.”

“If your first case is December first, the person probably got infected in November, then things started compounding from there.”

“The silver lining of this is, this could be as much of an accelerant for biomedicine as the internet was for software.”

“Didn't want to stigmatize a region by calling it like the Wuhan flu or the China flu. Like Reddit has a community called the China flu. That's not helpful for lots of reasons you know, like That area is hard enough hit. You don't want to hit it like, you know,…”

“Wuhan was a normal city on December first of last year, and by January 23rd, all seven hospitals were filled. People were being sent home to die. The entire city was put under quarantine, and it was, you know, the largest, like, you know, quarantine in human h…”

“Governments all around the world have said, look, if someone can come up with a vaccine for COVID-. We will buy You know, forty million doses, fifty million doses, whatever it is that has worked to produce a huge race among different companies, and the great t…”

“So when I see a piece In the New York Times that, you know, the headline and the first few paragraphs are arguing that, oh, you know, when Israel opened up its schools, its elementary schools COVID rates went up. And then you finally read all the way down, and…”