Tiny decisions will determine our collective future

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🗓️ 20 March 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

William Wan on how the novel coronavirus will radically alter the United States. Maura Judkis on social distancing with roommates. Plus, Julie Zauzmer’s dispatch from churches deciding what’s more important: fellowship and prayer, or public health?

Here’s what may lie ahead based on math models, hospital projections and past pandemics

Whose bedroom becomes the infirmary? Group-house living just got a whole lot trickier.

Without guidance from the top, Americans have been left to figure out their own coronavirus solutions - including whether or not to hold church services.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post, it's Robert Samuels from the Washington Post.
0:08.4	Post is Sarah Kaplan.
0:10.0	Hi, this is Elaheiz Adi with the Washington Post.
0:13.2	This is Post Reports.
0:15.0	I'm Martin Powers.
0:18.9	It's Friday, March 20th.
0:23.3	Today, the ways the coronavirus is reshaping America.
0:27.5	Social distancing with roommates and how churches are responding to the pandemic.
0:36.5	Last night, I was having trouble sleeping.
0:38.4	I was thinking about, among other things, like all the things I was worried about before
0:44.5	the stroke has trying to get in better shape.
0:47.0	Maybe lose a few pounds.
0:49.0	I was trying to pick up a hobby at some point.
0:54.4	I'm William One.
0:55.4	I'm a health reporter for the Washington Post.
0:57.5	The world feels so different now, and all those things are still important.
1:02.2	It's just, it's hard to have perspective right now, I think, is the thing.
1:10.2	One of the most authoritative modelers out there, the guy from Imperial College, he has a
1:16.6	model showing, if we do nothing, 2.2 million people die.
1:21.9	If we do some moderate restrictions, which we already have been doing, it is like isolating
1:26.8	the sick, quarantine, it could be 1.1 million.
1:31.3	He said, if you enact, you pull on every single lever you can, every restriction, drastic,
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