In learning to live with COVID-19, a look at the least crummy solutions

Protecting the vulnerable, while accepting disease spread in low-risk people will be painful, but it is our least bad route to getting society functioning again.

Hairdressers give their clients a trim in the Netherlands amid the pandemic. We need much better information about the relationship between risk, age, and comorbidities to help us to tailor our interventions, write Dr. Richard Schabas and Dr. Vivek Goel.Photograph by Ewien van Bergeijk-Kwant on Unsplash

Opinion

BY Dr. Richard Schabas and Dr. Vivek Goel

June 12, 2020

We need to find the middle ground in our fight against COVID-19. Lockdown is unsustainable and will undermine the very foundations of our population’s health. But simply letting the virus run its course could well cause many more deaths. There are no good choices, s...

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