Posted on 03/19/2020 11:17:46 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Novel coronavirus cases could have been reduced by 95 percent had China responded to the outbreak just three weeks earlier than it did, a March 13 study by the University of Southampton has found.
Researchers at the English university, using mapping technology to compile data on human movement and illness onset, found that China's non-pharmaceutical response to the COVID-19 outbreak in the country was three weeks too slow.
If the response "could have been conducted one week, two weeks, or three weeks earlier, cases could have been reduced by 66 percent, 86 percent and 95 percent respectively," a university news release about the study reads.
The study also found that detecting the virus and the act of social distancing are likely to be more effective in containing the virus than travel bans.
"Our study demonstrates how important it is for countries which are facing an imminent outbreak to proactively plan a coordinated response which swiftly tackles the spread of the disease on a number of fronts. We also show that China's comprehensive response, in a relatively short period, greatly reduced the potential health impact of the outbreak," study author Dr Shengjie Lai said in a statement.
The study comes as U.S.-China tensions escalate after China's Foreign Ministry blamed the U.S. Army for bringing COVID-19 to China, thus initiating the pandemic. President Trump has responded by referring to it as the "Chinese virus."
Some science and health experts have pointed to Chinese doctor Li Wenliang, who was detained for passing on knowledge about COVID-19 when it first appeared in China and later died at Wuhan Central Hospital, as an example of how China mishandled the virus in its early stages.
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Whose study? The Institute for the Study of the Bleedin’ Obvious?
OK, time for the MSM and others to stop the ridiculous use of the word “novel”.
WOW!! Can’t wait to see how the media report this....oh wait...
The study comes as U.S.-China tensions escalate after China’s Foreign Ministry blamed the U.S. Army for bringing COVID-19 to China, thus initiating the pandemic. President Trump has “responded by referring to it as the “Chinese virus.”
Everybody was Kung Flu Fighting!
Accelerated it to Italy and Iran.
We avoided it with the China travel ban and clear cut screening and isolation.
There was a breech in Seattle due to nurses.
There was not a travel ban from EU or Iran so it came here.
So in that way the Chinese response and EU response did ultimately cause it here.
President Xi Jinping’s The Yellow Peril ChiCom Wuhan Pneumonia Novel Coronavirus aka the Red Death/Mass People Killing Virus, Chinobyl#2, The Yellow Peril, Made in China!
One word: Reparations.
Nuke em.
Also look, everyone is back to work in Wuhan, bustling city of 10 million.
live cams:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf-4zQADLS8
Makes me laugh every time.
Consider this: The Chinese New Year was in Wuhan in mid-January. It is a major celebration and Chinese from all over the world return for the celebration. Wuhan is the epicenter of caronavirus.
Did the Chinese government cancel the celebration due to the pandemic? No!!!!
Italy has a half million Chinese living there mostly working in the textile/leather industry. Did they travel to Wuhan for the Chinese New Year? You bet!! By the plane loads. Did they bring the virus back to Italy from the epicenter? You bet. By the plane loads.
Is there any wonder Italy is suffering like it is?
At least they hugged Chinese and weren’t racist!
Its hypocritical urging of foreign countries to keep their borders open to Chinese travelers even while clamping down on domestic movements made things worse.
explain....
Also, if the quarantine had been issued three weeks earlier
it would have forestalled the departure of several million of the Wuhan residents
who were already experiencing symptoms of the virus and fled the area.
Instead of a world-wide pandemic, the infection would have been more regionalized, and remained local
and would have been contained.
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