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Bill Shults talks social distancing
Retired Newport Attorney and Tennessee Claims Commissioner Bill Shults has been researching pandemics for the past six years. He recently wrote an article for the Tennessee Bar Journal and last week hosted a webinar with 730 Tennessee attorneys logging on. Much of the article, "Tennessee Law in the Time of Pandemic Disease", deals with how well social distancing works as a major tool in stopping a disease like coronavirus. "What happens as we social distance, the virus is starved, it needs a warm human body to replicate itself. In the meantime, it dies out somewhat and gives us time to develop a vaccine and other supplies in place. But it does not spread if it cannot find another human victim to invade and make sick." Shults argues that social distancing works to control the spread of disease. He points to World War I in which more soldiers were lost to the flu than were lost in combat. "The Surgeon General of the Army had asked President Woodrow Wilson to stop moving troops for two or three weeks, the president made a mistake and wouldn't do it, and unfortunately lots of soldiers died." Shults says social distancing is painful, but he believes such a move will avoid an outcome that would be much worse. He points to comments from Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who predicts there could potentially be between 100,000 to 200,000 deaths related to the coronavirus and millions of cases. "So this is like having an operation, you endure the pain now for the long term good. If we social distance now, as recommended by the Tennessee Medical Association, I think we will avoid a situation that could get much, much worse in terms of sickness and deaths, as well as the economy."
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