This is the key to ending the coronavirus pandemic – but no one’s even talking about it

[Zach Epstein]

• The world is anxiously awaiting a cure for covid and dozens of promising therapies are currently being developed by pharmaceutical companies around the world.
• There are also more than 150 noteworthy coronavirus vaccines in development, with at least a handful of effective vaccines expected to receive emergency use authorization from the FDA before the end of the year.
• What many people don't realize is that we don't need to wait for a coronavirus vaccine or even effective therapies to stop the coronavirus pandemic — the solution is staring us in the face, but we lack the leadership to set the plan in motion.

With more than 24 million confirmed coronavirus cases and 822,000 deaths around the world having been caused by COVID-19 complications, there are still no signs that the coronavirus pandemic might come to an end anytime soon. This is particularly true in the United States, where an abysmal response from the White House and a perilous sense of entitlement among many citizens has led to the worst coronavirus outbreak in the world. The stunning lack of leadership from the current administration is directly responsible for the scale of the devastation in the US, where more than 5.84 million cases have been confirmed and more than 180,000 people have died of complications related to COVID-19. Now, schools are reopening across the country with no meaningful guidance whatsoever from the federal government. Thousands upon thousands of cases have already been confirmed among children and teachers, and most schools have only been open for a week or two. One school district in Florida alone recorded nearly 9,000 coronavirus cases within 15 days of reopening.

There is no question that the novel coronavirus pandemic would have wreaked havoc in the US whether or not the government had acted sooner. But there is also no question that much of the devastation could have been avoided. Trump's insane ramblings early on suggesting that COVID-19 was no worse than the flu and that it would go away on its own were utterly disastrous. He then politicized the pandemic and his base bought the bait hook, line, and sinker. Even now, so many Trump supporters still refuse to take the coronavirus seriously until it's too late — like the Texas man who thought COVID-19 was a liberal hoax and that "Democrats were using it to create panic, crash the economy and destroy Trump’s chances at re-election." Then, his recklessness spread the coronavirus to his entire family, ultimately killing at least one of his relatives.

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