Posted on 03/17/2020 8:16:30 PM PDT by rintintin
Two hours. That’s all the time medical teams in Singapore are given to uncover the first details of how patients contracted the coronavirus and which people they might infect.
Did they travel abroad? Do they have a link to one of the five clusters of contagion identified across the city-state? Did they cough on someone in the street? Who are their friends and family, their drinking buddies and partners in prayer?
As Western nations struggle with the wildfire spread of the coronavirus, Singapore’s strategy, of moving rapidly to track down and test suspected cases, provides a model for keeping the epidemic at bay, even if it can’t completely stamp out infections.
With detailed detective work, the government’s contact tracers found, among others, a group of avid singers who warbled and expelled respiratory droplets together, spreading the virus to their families and then to a gym and a church — forming the largest concentration of cases in Singapore.
“We want to stay one or two steps ahead of the virus,” said Vernon Lee, the director of the communicable diseases division at Singapore’s Ministry of Health. “If you chase the virus, you will always be behind the curve.”
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You are being hysterical !!!!
True. They are very subservient in cases like this.
You’re right. Trump knows how to get things done in the private sector and is doing an amazing job with what he has to contend with now.
Thanks for sharing that. I’m sure Trump is learning from Singapore and incorporating that into the overall effort.
We have too many idiots in the United States, they’re like spoiled children.
Good thinking.
Trump has done an amazing job I light of what he has to contend with. We have too many idiots.
This won’t be fixed until they have vaccines and effective medicine.
But I think in a few weeks the economy will overtake the virus as the bigger problem.
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Sacramento California admitted days ago they “don’t have the resources to track cases” and quit. That was days ago. Nice try though.
Singapore also threw every commie they could lay hands on out in the 50s. They’ve done a number of things properly. It’s that British heritage, maybe.
The US has a large land mass and you will have local hot spots that need attention, then the hot spots will move as hot spots recover. Like whack a mole. So not 1 size fits all policy will work
How much do our HIPAA restrictions hurt us here?
Out of the whole privacy thing, we don’t ever divulge who has it so other than that person’s willingness to divulge contacts gets tracked or notified.
IIRC Korea stopped their epidemic by announcing in the neighborhoods who had tested positive.
This virus has brought the world to a standstill. Open your eyes and look.
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