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Tracking the Coronavirus: How Crowded Asian Cities Tackled an Epidemic (Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan)
New York Times ^ | March 17 2020 | Hanna Beech

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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: covid19; usatestingfail
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To: Crucial

You are being hysterical !!!!


21 posted on 03/17/2020 10:39:02 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: familyop

True. They are very subservient in cases like this.


22 posted on 03/17/2020 10:44:30 PM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: familyop

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.


23 posted on 03/17/2020 10:46:43 PM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Bommer

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.


24 posted on 03/17/2020 10:50:17 PM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: pangaea6

Good thinking.

Trump has done an amazing job I light of what he has to contend with. We have too many idiots.


25 posted on 03/17/2020 10:54:52 PM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: chris37

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.


26 posted on 03/17/2020 11:39:53 PM PDT by desertfreedom765
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To: rintintin

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27 posted on 03/18/2020 1:53:30 AM PDT by sauropod (Fear can turn a human into an animal.)
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To: rintintin

Sacramento California admitted days ago they “don’t have the resources to track cases” and quit. That was days ago. Nice try though.


28 posted on 03/18/2020 3:05:16 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Bommer

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.


29 posted on 03/18/2020 3:06:53 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: pangaea6

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


30 posted on 03/18/2020 5:55:53 AM PDT by Jimmy The Snake (Remeber)
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To: rintintin

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.


31 posted on 03/18/2020 5:58:11 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

This virus has brought the world to a standstill. Open your eyes and look.


32 posted on 03/18/2020 7:05:22 AM PDT by Crucial
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33 posted on 03/18/2020 12:51:04 PM PDT by bitt ("Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you." Benjamin Franklin)
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