There have been close to 35,000 deaths from the coronavirus in the United States, but a new analysis suggests that total deaths could have been reduced by 90 percent if social distancing measures were put in place just two weeks earlier.
The new analysis comes from epidemiologists Britta L. Jewell and Nicholas P. Jewell, who wrote in an op-ed published by the New York Times that the majority of coronavirus cases and deaths could have been avoided if social distancing policies were put in place on March 2 rather than when President Donald Trump announced them on March 16. Even putting them in place one week sooner would have reduced deaths by 60 percent, the epidemiologists argued.
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