Posted on 03/29/2020 10:06:19 AM PDT by Paladin2
The extraordinary success of Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong in limiting the impact of the sudden acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) demonstrates that it is possible to mount an effective response to an outbreak by major investment in pandemic preparedness. Despite their proximity to China, these three regions have managed to keep case numbers and fatalities low. By learning from previous coronavirus outbreaks where these territories bore the brunt, they were able to rapidly deploy widespread testing, combine it with digital surveillance to trace individuals’ movements, and impose strict quarantines in suspect cases, in addition to building large stockpiles of personal protective equipment.
In the rest of the world, most countries have been completely unprepared for the onslaught of the virus. As a result, many healthcare systems have faced community transmission before adequate testing was in place to allow isolation and tracking. Despite public health authorities’ often draconian measures and isolation tactics, many were caught flat-footed in validating, implementing and distributing SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic tests and in establishing decentralized point-of-care (POC) testing. Now that picture is starting to change, with the first shipments of such tests (Table 1). What’s more, the present crisis could be a defining moment for diagnostics based on CRISPR technology — the first diagnostic test based on CRISPR gene editing technology may only be weeks away. To stop the virus spreading, however, will take a massive effort to scale up the production of easy-to-use POC tests and then to deploy them widely.
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Do non-USA countries have more problems with diseases and are therefore more alert and responsive do dealing with them? Complacency may be a problem with locally eradicating them as US does.
“widespread testing, combine it with digital surveillance to trace individuals’ movements, and impose strict quarantines in suspect cases,”
This was all made ILLEGAL in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
No mandatory testing.
No Quarantine.
No Travel Restrictions.
No denied entry.
And folks still having un-protected group “encounters” or insane folks intentionally infecting other people.
Lots the same. Lots different.
With Politics, Life matters not.
Raw Power is what counts.
The modern Demon Rat party is Anti-life at every turn and craves POWER at all costs.
testing at home will under track the total number of tests, number of those without symptoms, number never infected etc.
Are these testers coming on line here in the US?
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