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Is it worth it to identify everyone infected with the coronavirus?
By Kent R. Kroeger (March 17, 2020)
Two news stories this morning (March 16, 2020) caught my attention.
The first story concerned Utah Jazz basketball player Donovan Mitchell who was diagnosed to have the coronavirus (2019-nCoV) and apparently became infected through his close contact with fellow player Rudy Gobert, who also tested positive for the virus.
“I’m asymptomatic,” Mitchell told ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Monday. “I don’t have any symptoms. I could walk down the street (and) if it wasn’t public knowledge that I was sick, you wouldn’t know it. I think that’s the scariest part about this virus. You may seem fine, be fine. And you never know who you may be talking to, who they’re going home to.”
We should assume there are thousands of Donovan Mitchell’s roaming our country feeling healthy and promoting the spread of COVID-19.
The second story I heard on public radio station WNYC this morning. While being interviewed on the The Brian Lehrer Show, Dr. Irwin Redlener, professor of pediatrics and director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University, told the NPR audience that the emphasis for containing COVID-19 must focus on those already sick and not trying to test as many people as possible…
