richard hatchet try to figure out the answer to a very particular question and it is what do you do to slow disease before you have vaccine? how do you minimize illness and death and the conventional wisdom at time which is hard to believe and it was entrenched in the public health community was you couldn t do much. social distancing, school closing and all of this stuff didn t work. and they thought that because in 1918 it seemed not to have worked. and so inside of the bush white house, these two guys and they re raul doctors, like an oncologists and an icu doctor reexamine what happened in 1918 and write persuasive papers about how the reason that st. louis had a fraction of the death rate of philadelphia was that they introduced these interventions earlier in relation to the arrival of the disease. and this wisdom ends up being buried in a plan about how you
house, these two guys and they re real doctors, like an oncologists and an icu doctor reexamine what happened in 1918 and write persuasive papers about how the reason that st. louis had a fraction of the death rate of philadelphia was that they introduced these interventions earlier in relation to the arrival of the disease. and this wisdom ends up being buried in a plan about how you intervene when you have a pandemic. that becomes the official plan of the government and it is in the cdc. now the irony here is the cdc was regarded as the world s great health organization, spread this idea to other countries. australia has contained the virus using the playbook the cdc handed them. so other countries executed our plan much better than we did. of course it is too simplistic to say it is just that plan. it was a plan, but the plan is was easily adopted to