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April 4, 2020
Via de Servi in Florence, Italy, with the Santa Maria del Fiore Cathedral in the background, on March 11.Clara Vannucci
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By [Nicholas Kristof](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRga2enP0TJaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vY29sdW1uL25pY2hvbGFzLWtyaXN0b2Y_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9NDUmZW1jPWVkaXRfbmtfMjAyMDA0MDQmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTczNTcmbmw9bmljaG9sYXMta3Jpc3RvZiZyZWdpX2lkPTc3Njc0OTUyJnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9MjM4ODMmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3VwNueXRCCgArp-KIXrlGZg9SG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~)
Opinion Columnist
In the world war against the coronavirus, there’s both very good news and very bad news — and that’s the [topic of my column](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRga2enP0ThaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMC8wNC8wNC9vcGluaW9uL3N1bmRheS9jb3ZpZC13aGF0cy1uZXh0Lmh0bWw_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9NDUmZW1jPWVkaXRfbmtfMjAyMDA0MDQmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTczNTcmbmw9bmljaG9sYXMta3Jpc3RvZiZyZWdpX2lkPTc3Njc0OTUyJnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9MjM4ODMmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3VwNueXRCCgArp-KIXrlGZg9SG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~) today.
The good news is that the evidence is accumulating that our toolbox works. Social distancing and business closures have been effective quite quickly in slowing infections. Italy appears to be through the worst of the first wave, and Washington state is a good example of a place that took the pandemic seriously and successfully bent the curve. So is New Rochelle, N.Y.
The bad news is that tens of thousands are likely to die in the United States alone because of past mistakes and complacency. One of the leading models, from the University of Washington, foresees 93,000 deaths in America in the first wave, by the beginning of August. South Korea’s toll in the first wave, 174, would be equivalent to 1,100 for an American-sized population. So one way of thinking about this is that we may lose 90,000 American lives in the first wave of the coronavirus because we did not handle the challenge as well as South Korea did.
More bad news: Once we get through this wave, we’ll be at risk of the next wave. When we resume economic activity and travel, infections will resume as well. We’re already beginning to see hints of that in Asia.
But to compensate for the bad news, here’s something more uplifting. A 103-year-old veteran in Oregon, William Lapschies, caught Covid-19 in early March — but recovered in time to celebrate his [104th birthday](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRga2enP0ToaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cud2FzaGluZ3RvbnBvc3QuY29tL25hdGlvbi8yMDIwLzA0LzAzL3ZldGVyYW4tc3Vydml2ZWQtY29yb25hdmlydXMvP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTQ1JmVtYz1lZGl0X25rXzIwMjAwNDA0Jmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTE3MzU3Jm5sPW5pY2hvbGFzLWtyaXN0b2YmcmVnaV9pZD03NzY3NDk1MiZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTIzODgzJnRlPTEmdXNlcl9pZD1hYTQ5MWVmN2YxZDk2NGU0OTc5ZmI3ODRlNzRlMDFkN1cDbnl0QgoAK6fiiF65RmYPUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~) on Wednesday with pizza and chocolate cake. Happy 104th, Mr. Lapschies!
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O Captain, My Captain
The Captain of the USS Roosevelt aircraft carrier, Brett Crozier, was alarmed about Covid-19 spreading on the ship, so he sent a letter to the Navy hierarchy pleading for permission to let the sailors off the ship. “Sailors do not need to die,” he wrote. The letter leaked, causing embarrassment — so the Navy relieved Captain Crozier of command.
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Now, we don’t know the full story, but the Navy says it does not suspect Captain Crozier of leaking the letter. And I do admire an officer who fights for the well-being of his crew, so I fear he was punished for speaking truth to power. I was deeply moved to see [the extraordinary](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRga2enP0TSaHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9Tb3Rlcm8yNjkvc3RhdHVzLzEyNDYwMzQ0NTAyMjU0MzA1Mjk_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9NDUmZW1jPWVkaXRfbmtfMjAyMDA0MDQmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTczNTcmbmw9bmljaG9sYXMta3Jpc3RvZiZyZWdpX2lkPTc3Njc0OTUyJnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9MjM4ODMmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3VwNueXRCCgArp-KIXrlGZg9SG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~) send-off that the carrier crew gave Crozier as he walked alone off the ship, thanking him and cheering him as a hero. There’s no doubt who the sailors think showed leadership.
That Trump Postcard
In a recent newsletter I showed a postcard from President Trump that was apparently sent to every household in the country, offering guidelines for fighting Covid-19. I criticized it as a political mailing sent out at taxpayer expense. And it was. But it’s also true that many conservatives are deeply skeptical of the coronavirus, and people in Trump country are not taking precautions the way they are elsewhere. In those places, it’s probably true that a message under Trump’s name would carry more weight than a note from a C.D.C. epidemiologist.
For example, a conservative pastor named Curt Landry has [warned](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRga2enP0SvaHR0cDovL2JpdC5seS8zYUVQNW9xP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTQ1JmVtYz1lZGl0X25rXzIwMjAwNDA0Jmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTE3MzU3Jm5sPW5pY2hvbGFzLWtyaXN0b2YmcmVnaV9pZD03NzY3NDk1MiZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTIzODgzJnRlPTEmdXNlcl9pZD1hYTQ5MWVmN2YxZDk2NGU0OTc5ZmI3ODRlNzRlMDFkN1cDbnl0QgoAK6fiiF65RmYPUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~) his followers never to accept an eventual vaccination for the coronavirus. “That vaccine is from the pit of Hell,” Landry said. “Do not pray for those vaccines, and do not take the vaccine.”
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China and the Coronavirus
There has been reporting recently from Bloomberg, The Washington Post and other news organizations suggesting that China suppressed the true death toll of the coronavirus in Wuhan. I think that’s true, but also that it’s more complicated.
Wuhan officially had 2,500 coronavirus deaths, and clearly it was far more than that. Some reports calculate that 40,000 people may have died at that time, about half from ordinary causes of death and half from the coronavirus.
That seems plausible to me, but I don’t believe Chinese officials themselves know. It’s not that Beijing is suppressing data so much as that it doesn’t have data. Hospitals in Wuhan were overwhelmed, so when an 85-year-old died of pneumonia no one was going to worry about a posthumous diagnosis. And in talking to doctors in this country, that’s also true here. When a frail, elderly person with congestive heart failure in the United States dies at home, there may be no further screening to determine if there was also the coronavirus. In that sense, our own numbers may also be an undercount.
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Try Washing Hands with No Water
We’re all being told to wash our hands to avoid spreading Covid-19, but in much of the world, that’s impossible. Sera L. Young and Joshua D. Miller, two scholars at Northwestern University, [conducted a study](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRga2enP0S_aHR0cHM6Ly9zaXRlcy5ub3J0aHdlc3Rlcm4uZWR1L2h3aXNlLz9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD00NSZlbWM9ZWRpdF9ua18yMDIwMDQwNCZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD0xNzM1NyZubD1uaWNob2xhcy1rcmlzdG9mJnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD0yMzg4MyZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKACun4oheuUZmD1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA) of this and wrote about it for my newsletter:
In an effort to develop a tool that could easily identify these individuals, our team of over 40 scientists recently collected the most comprehensive data on household water security to date. What we found is alarming: nearly one in four randomly selected households were unable to wash their hands in the prior month because of problems with water. At a number of sites in South America, East Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, more than half of the population were unable to wash their hands in the prior month.
Our findings align with a [recent report](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRga2enP0TmaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cud2hvLmludC93YXRlcl9zYW5pdGF0aW9uX2hlYWx0aC9wdWJsaWNhdGlvbnMvam1wLXJlcG9ydC0yMDE5L2VuLz9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD00NSZlbWM9ZWRpdF9ua18yMDIwMDQwNCZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD0xNzM1NyZubD1uaWNob2xhcy1rcmlzdG9mJnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD0yMzg4MyZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKACun4oheuUZmD1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA) from the World Health Organization and UNICEF that found that roughly 40 percent of households globally do not have a functional handwashing facility. Yet neither of our studies include data from [high-income countries](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRga2enP0S_aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaXJjd2FzaC5vcmcvYmxvZy9jb3ZpZC0xOT9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD00NSZlbWM9ZWRpdF9ua18yMDIwMDQwNCZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD0xNzM1NyZubD1uaWNob2xhcy1rcmlzdG9mJnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD0yMzg4MyZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKACun4oheuUZmD1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA) where there are also water-related barriers to washing hands and staying in place. For example, water issues abound in the United States — an estimated 15 million Americans experienced [a water](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRga2enP0TvaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZm9vZGFuZHdhdGVyd2F0Y2gub3JnL3NpdGVzL2RlZmF1bHQvZmlsZXMvcnB0XzE4MTBfd2F0ZXJzaHV0b2Zmcy13ZWIyLnBkZj9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD00NSZlbWM9ZWRpdF9ua18yMDIwMDQwNCZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD0xNzM1NyZubD1uaWNob2xhcy1rcmlzdG9mJnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD0yMzg4MyZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKACun4oheuUZmD1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA)shut-off due to failure to pay in 2016.
Healthcare workers are also plagued by the inability to wash hands. An estimated one in four medical personnel serving on the front lines of the Covid-19 crisis does not have access to [basic water services](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRga2enP0TbaHR0cHM6Ly9kYXRhLnVuaWNlZi5vcmcvcmVzb3VyY2VzL3dhc2gtaW4taGVhbHRoLWNhcmUtZmFjaWxpdGllcy8_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9NDUmZW1jPWVkaXRfbmtfMjAyMDA0MDQmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTczNTcmbmw9bmljaG9sYXMta3Jpc3RvZiZyZWdpX2lkPTc3Njc0OTUyJnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9MjM4ODMmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3VwNueXRCCgArp-KIXrlGZg9SG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~). This means that after treating patients, many doctors and nurses cannot wash their hands with soap and water.
Lessons Learned from the Coronavirus
[Here’s my column](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRga2enP0ThaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMC8wNC8wNC9vcGluaW9uL3N1bmRheS9jb3ZpZC13aGF0cy1uZXh0Lmh0bWw_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9NDUmZW1jPWVkaXRfbmtfMjAyMDA0MDQmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTczNTcmbmw9bmljaG9sYXMta3Jpc3RvZiZyZWdpX2lkPTc3Njc0OTUyJnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9MjM4ODMmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3VwNueXRCCgArp-KIXrlGZg9SG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~) about lessons learned from the first places to go through the coronavirus crisis, and what lies ahead. [Please read.](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRga2enP0ThaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMC8wNC8wNC9vcGluaW9uL3N1bmRheS9jb3ZpZC13aGF0cy1uZXh0Lmh0bWw_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9NDUmZW1jPWVkaXRfbmtfMjAyMDA0MDQmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTczNTcmbmw9bmljaG9sYXMta3Jpc3RvZiZyZWdpX2lkPTc3Njc0OTUyJnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9MjM4ODMmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3VwNueXRCCgArp-KIXrlGZg9SG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~)
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