![]() … I’m going to listen to Gates.Īnd six to 10 weeks of what exactly - without leaving your house? He suggests it’s probably going to be six to 10 weeks. If you haven’t seen that, it’s worth watching. It’s a two-week order, but the restaurants stay closed until May 1. There’s a lot of people who are still going to be going to work and out and about. And 78 percent of jobs are classified as essential. Here in Minnesota, the governor has asked for a stay-at-home order - not a hard lock-down. There were all these people hanging out partying. New Orleans had 67 percent day-over-day case growth right now. ![]() I recently talked to the public health people in New Orleans. When you have the governor of Mississippi saying on Wednesday he’s going to overrule any locality that asks people to stay home, he doesn’t have someone looking at the data and advising him, or he’s not following that. In Miami, they basically started it a lot later. We believe that’s resulting in fewer cases and fewer hospitalizations. People stopped socializing a lot earlier. ![]() Santa Clara - you’re pointing to one as good and bad in terms of approach?Ĭalifornia instituted these lock-down procedures earlier. Unfortunately, they’re not going to stop the onslaught that is going to happen in the next short period of time. It’s still at a stage where it’s doubling every three or four days. You have the problem of a supposed two-week lag time between the time when somebody catches this, and when hospitalizations begin. The challenge is we’re chasing an exponential spreading condition. It’s the only thing we have that works right now. The good news is we know that these actions - #stayhome - work. It looks at the relationship between what the actual data say, compared to what they should say, so when it goes up or it goes down, we’ve connected it to specific actions taken by the state or the locality. We know what the expectations are given flu season. We don’t have the kind of testing and monitoring you need to have, but this is a pretty good proxy: there are a bunch of people who have digital thermometers who upload their temperatures to the cloud every day. ![]() What you’re seeing is since Miami adopted the same measures that Santa Clara adopted - closing schools, restaurants and bars - they’ve now started to head in the right direction, albeit later and higher. It’s about who was earlier and who was later. here’s who’s doing prevention right and who is doing it wrong. On Twitter, you’ve posted graphs comparing coronavirus cases in Miami versus Santa Clara County, Calif. The 30-minute interview is available below (and at /MeloSlavitt.) ![]() Here’s an excerpt from the interview, which has been edited for length and clarity. The Pioneer Press interviewed Slavitt recently via Zoom software. Slavitt is prolific on Twitter ( /ASlavitt). He was later appointed acting director of Medicare and Medicaid Services from March 2015 to January 2017. In 2013, the disastrous roll-out of during the Obama administration drew his attention, and Slavitt contacted the White House and asked to be put in charge of its redesign. It was later acquired by UnitedHealth Group, where he served as a vice president with subsidiary Optum Health. Slavitt, a former investment banker and Harvard Business School graduate, founded the Health Allies health discount company in 1999. Slavitt has helped launch the websites and /vents, a medical clearinghouse aimed at matching donors and sellers of medical equipment to hospitals in need. Andy Slavitt (Courtesy of Town Hall Ventures) He’s calling for those stay-at-home orders to last 6 to 10 weeks. Slavitt is an Edina resident and founder and board chair of United States of Care, a health policy initiative that now focuses exclusively on the coronavirus epidemic. Will it be enough?įormer White House adviser Andy Slavitt thinks not. Tim Walz this week issued a two-week stay-at-home order to help slow the spread of the novel coronavirus and buy some time for the medical community to acquire ventilators and prepare hospital beds and intensive care units. ![]()
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