The isolation guidelines are well published to help "flatten the curve" as in not overwhelm our ability to treat seriously ill folks and possibly save some along the way. The total numbers of infections don't really drop, they just spread out over the course of many months. New York is
the US example to look at what happens when hospitals get overloaded. Many more die due to lack of resources. We don't yet know how many died that normally would have been saved due to other life threatening emergencies.
In Texas, as of today, deaths from Corona virus stand at 0.0000172%.
Total for the state... 517.
That is a huge win! Thanks to all the distancing! Also, folks having every day run of the mill emergencies like heart attacks, strokes, diabetic comas, car accidents and so on are able to be seen and treated in the proper time frames. Our hospitals and medical offices are not busting at the seams with COVID-19 patients.
3. All we are doing is possibly slowing the spread, but in the end we will still have to reach heard immunity.
Has there been a peer reviewed study done if herd immunity can be reached with this virus?