Experts Frustrated as Many Don’t Take Warnings Seriously

Such as the many beach goers this week (Newsweek).  

The site of them all had Jake Tapper on edge (Mediaite).  

From another story: “Why would I get sick at the beach? I’m not going to be touching anything,” said 46-year-old David Zimmer of Richmond, Minnesota, as he joined a group of family and friends flip-flopping their way to a beach that police had driven through just an hour before to empty it out (Washington Times).  

From another story: If the Imperial College’s model of the disease is right, though — and that’s a big “if” — then suppression doesn’t hold the disease at bay once it’s lifted. We’d need an indefinite lockdown, a.k.a. economic suicide, until an effective treatment is available, which could be more than a year away. Social death by contagion or social death by economic depression: It seems like the task for policymakers right now is finding the “optimal” balance between those two that’ll result in the least possible amount of human misery, knowing that the misery will be incredibly vast no matter what they do (Hot Air).  

National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins was asked what has surprised him most about the coronavirus. “The degree to which this is so rapidly transmissible. More so than SARS was. SARS was a terribly scary situation for the world 18 years ago, but it never reached the level of infections or deaths that we have for this coronavirus because it wasn’t as transmissible. SARS was transmissible but only from people who were really very sick. This one seems to be transmissible from people who have minor illness or maybe no illness at all—which is why it has been so difficult to get control or to know when you should be imposing these stringent measures we’ve been talking about. If you wait until you’ve seen lots of affected cases, you know you’ve waited too late because the number of people who haven’t yet turned up in the health-care system but who are already infected is probably 100 times the number of cases you know about” (The Atlantic).  

One study suggests 86 percent of those who have coronavirus are undetected (NY Post).  

Another look at the success of South Korea (Science Magazine).  

In South Korea, basketball games are scheduled for the end of the month (ESPN).  

Kevin Durant and three of his Brooklyn Nets teammates have the coronavirus (Washington Examiner).  

Person by person, what we know about those who have died in the U.S. (CNN).