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What’s changed is that the maximum feasible duration of a broad shutdown has been reached.

What did it accomplish? Some areas of the country are better prepared to treat a surge of Covid patients now than they were in March. And we’re 3-4 months closer to new drugs than we were then.

What did it not accomplish? Many areas are not better prepared to treat. Most areas still don’t have contact tracing capacity to actively find and isolate infections.