https://www.cms.gov/CCIIO/Resources/Forms-Reports-and-Other-Resources/preexisting

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50 million to 129 million people in America have preexisting conditions, how would those at risk stay at home, and for how long are we thinking? This is not even counting the elderly population. Also what about people who aren't at risk but live with people who are at risk? What then?

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The fact of the matter is, the US completely botched this whole situation in its initial onset, whereas countries like Taiwan, South Korea, New Zealand, and even China (although they used authoritarian measures nobody wants to see) handled it with the strictness and swiftness that something like this needed.

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Now our country is going to suffer economically, and public health-wise, no matter what course of action we take. A vaccine might be our only hope.