COVID-19 Megathread 5: The Trumps catch COVID-19

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I have not looked at enough threads this morning to know whether or not this has already been posted.  But I'm just going to leave this here.  In the few days leading up to last week's briefing debacle, Mark Grenon, the head of a Florida-based project called Genesis II, which pedals chlorine dioxide as a cure-all, wrote Trump a letter claiming his product could cure COVID-19.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/24/revealed-leader-group-peddling-bleach-cure-lobbied-trump-coronavirus?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR3Wk-QF6SzmMX9GKfWMo41fQxnNrn_SHCoYoNOXREyZQIamaCOahQ9HMG8

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The Vox article above indicates that California has had only about 50% compliance with stay-at-home orders.  There is no way curves will be "crushed" by mitigation procedures that have that have such a low compliance rate.  Lockdowns can only be effective when people observe them.

Anyway, there is still so much we do not know about CoV-19.  We don't know how to vaccinate against it or really treat it systematically.  We don't know how long immunity acquired through exposure lasts.  We don't know much about its mutation rate and patterns.  We still are not doing nearly enough initial testing or contact tracing, our serological tests are still not very accurate, and what immunity rates may presently exist are still quite low.  When most people are still as vulnerable as they are, and when we still know so little about this thing, opening things up to precipitously is like going for a walk during a firestorm.