Lockdowns Must Last At Least 60 Days

A new modeling study simulates responses to the pandemic in an attempt to find the best one

Yasmin Tayag
Medium Coronavirus Blog
2 min readJun 23, 2020

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New York City, the center of the U.S. epidemic, went into lockdown on March 22, and it became one of the last places in the country to ease its restrictions on June 8. Altogether, lockdown in New York City lasted for about 78 days, or just over 11…

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Yasmin Tayag
Medium Coronavirus Blog

Editor, Medium Coronavirus Blog. Senior editor at Future Human by OneZero. Previously: science at Inverse, genetics at NYU.