Don't be Italy / Yuri Vishnevsky / Observable

Don't be Italy / Yuri Vishnevsky / Observable: Don't be Italy Containment gets harder every day we delay. By Ben Kuhn and Yuri Vishnevsky When coronavirus cases spiked in Lombardy, officials thought they moved quickly—putting 50,000 people in 11 towns under lockdown. But it wasn't nearly enough: two weeks later, when they shut down the entire country, the epidemic was 100 times bigger with little sign of stopping. We need stronger measures, much faster. So far, successful mitigaions in China/Korea have involved near-complete shutdown, very ear