From the story by Dr. Daniel Murphy: I’m an emergency physician at St.
Barnabas Hospital in The Bronx. I have been in the ER every day these last few
weeks, either supervising or providing direct care. I contracted a COVID-19
infection very early in the outbreak, as did two of my daughters, one of whom
is a nurse. We are all well, thank God. COVID-19 has been the worst health-care
disaster of my 30-year career, because of its intensity, duration and
potential for lasting impact. The lasting impact is what worries me the most.
And it’s why I now believe we should end the lockdown and rapidly get back to
work (NY Post).
From Guy Benson on Dr.
Murphy’s article: Key points: “I worry about non-coronavirus care.” 43% of those tested
in the Bronx are positive for COVID-19 (Twitter).
It turns out, there is a lot of
math involved in figuring out how bad this really is in New York (Hot Air). And Kevin McCullough’s
Townhall article has been getting a lot of press as he challenges the
assumptions that have yet to prove true (Townhall).
From an interesting article
in Forbes: COVID-19’s damage has been awful. But from a public policy
perspective, it should be judged by the number of living days it has robbed
from human beings, not by raw deaths tallied up without the context of
demographics. Using the living days stolen scale is the only fair way
to assess COVID-19’s damage as policy makers and citizens begin the hard task
of weighing the health and economic tradeoffs of COVID-19 (Forbes).
Meanwhile, things are improving
greatly in Japan (WSJ).
Dr. Gottlieb looks at the growing
cases in Africa (Twitter).
And Jim Geraghty questions
NPR’s story waiving off any concern that the virus came from a Wuhan lab (National Review).
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