MICLIST 3/18/20

- Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do to increase ventilator availability. I typically avoid HuffPost, but this article offers excellent research into the problem.

- This one is definitely a downer - implies that young people have a significant burden of serious disease requiring hospitalization and ICU. It could be that young people are disproportionately infected, or that we're just not seeing the hospitalized older people due to delays in testing. All the same, in a period of uncertainty, I interpret any signal like this as an argument for playing it safe up front.

- A 50% solution is a lot better than nothing at all. I'm surprised we don't see more of this - employees making makeshift PPE. As supplies run out, do we think Mike Pence is going to save the day? By next week?

- The Brits switch tack. This has me bummed since I was rooting for their approach. Nonetheless, I'm still impressed - it takes guts to change approach when the best understanding changes.

- Lipsitch answers back (to Ioannidis piece here.) Seems like Ioannidis could be the defender of the Brits' approach, and Lipsitch the rest of the world. Given recent events, it seems Lipsitch's view stands taller.