Posted on 05/30/2020 9:10:43 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
...Simple, say medical authorities, it acted early and swiftly. Vietnam ignored China and the World Health Organization’s initial insistence that there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission and deployed rapid measures like strict quarantining, and contact tracing before its first case was even detected, CNN reported.
“We were not only waiting for guidelines from WHO. We used the data we gathered from outside and inside (the country to) decide to take action early,” said Pham Quang Thai, deputy head of the Infection Control Department at the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology in Hanoi...
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They lie.
That, and they have a lot less heavy or old people.
Have they released total-death data for this year and last year?
Uhhhhhh....how do you know who to quarantine and who to inform they have been in contact with someone with coronavirus BEFORE the first case was even detected?
Oh, how I look forward to the FReepsplaining on this one. This should be epic.
I wonder if their annual flu deaths increased.
oh....and widespread use of anti-malarial drug HCQ...
exactly
It is because that traditionally the Vietnamese(even the N. VN) DESPISE the Chinese and therefore I don’t the very much trade or transit between the 2 countries exists. Keep the Chinks OUT and then keep the Wu Flu out!
I was wondering about that as well.
These two documents are the most recent interesting news on HCQ. Well, these, and the Lancet study being discredited.
Early Outpatient Treatment of Symptomatic, High-Risk Covid-19 Patients that Should be Ramped-Up Immediately as Key to the Pandemic Crisis (paper by a Yale epidemiologist)
https://academic.oup.com/aje/advance-article/doi/10.1093/aje/kwaa093/5847586
Revised advisory on the use of Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) as prophylaxis for SARS-CoV-2 infection (From the Indian equivalent of the CDC)
https://www.icmr.gov.in/pdf/covid/techdoc/V5_Revised_advisory_on_the_use_of_HCQ_SARS_CoV2_infection.pdf
Freepersplaining - Vietnam officials can dissemble with a straight face, no difficulty whatsoever. Also, they take EVERYTHING the Chinese officials say with a large measure of skepticism, which is to say, if the Chinese say things are one way, probably almost the polar opposite is the correct interpretation.
Now, the actual passing of the COVID-19 Wuhan virus was probably quite widespread among the Vietnamese people, but the relative youth of their population, and the more accepted practice of social distancing, kept the concentration of continued repassing back and forth between affected individuals down to a bare minimum, keeping the disease from reaching critical morbid levels that have killed elsewhere in the world.
Simple: Just don’t report it.
CNN reported = Same
Are we sure that they are telling the truth? Impossible to know.
No, we are not sure they are telling the truth about their number of infections and deaths, but I tend to think that while their numbers may be higher than reported, their numbers are probably not that bad at all.
Vietnam was not stupid enough to believe China and the WHO. That I do believe. And that is worth pointing out to people.
According to countrymeters.info/en/Vietnam the total deaths in 2019 were 560,668. The population is 95.43 million.
Deaths from corona virus may be nill, but the Wuhan flu is another story.
Eat lots and lots of pho.
That doesn’t help without a year-to-date comparison with 2020.
I don’t get it. All those sailors on the Roosevelt got it after a port visit there.
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