Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

There is no response that results in no deaths. That Lonely Joe Parker twitter thread that @William. linked above is worth a read, specifically this:

"This was an impossible task for BJ: There is no such thing as a 'perfect' strategy out of lockdown.

Unknown:

• We still don't know if acquired immunity is effective, or lasting;
  
• We don't really know community prevalence;
  
• We don't have ANY idea how long this will go on.. 3/
  
  

We do however have a fairly good idea of the costs - and I'm talking in genuine, statistically-attributable, earlier-than-necessary, DEATHS here - of economic contraction. They are not trivial. They run to thousands a week, too. 4/"