Posted on 03/14/2020 1:56:27 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Taiwan, a nation of 23 million, lies only 81 miles off the coast of China. About 2.71 million visitors fly from the mainland to the island each year.
But while China’s coronavirus death toll stands at more than 3,100, Taiwan has had only 49 confirmed cases and just one death as of Friday. That’s despite early predictions that it would have the second-highest "importation risk" of any country.
Taiwan's Central Epidemic Command Center was activated on Jan. 20, and between then and Feb. 24, it took 124 actions based on assessments gathered from the country’s integration of big data and technology. They included:
Border control from the air and sea, including travel restrictions and cruise ship bans
Case identification (using new data and technology), patients’ 14-day travel history integrated into the National Health Insurance Administration and Immigration Agency database
Quarantine of suspicious cases and electronic monitoring of quarantined individuals via government-issued cell phones
Proactive case finding
Resource allocation (assessing and managing capacity), such as setting up test sites and taking over production of surgical and N95 masks (more than 10 million per day)
Reassurance and education of the public while fighting misinformation;
investigated rumors that started a toilet paper panic and prosecuted a man for claiming cyanide wards off coronavirus
Negotiation with other countries and regions
Formulation of policies toward schools and childcare
Relief to businesses
In contrast to Taiwan’s speedy emergency medical mobilization, which undoubtedly limited coronavirus cases and saved lives, countries such as Italy, Iran, France and the United States have been slow to act as the pandemic spreads.
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Because it’s an island?
“Dr. Gregory Poland, a Mayo Clinic infectious diseases and vaccine specialist, says that the threat of the coronavirus is real, but the seasonal flu still remains a bigger issue for most people.
“Right now, seasonal flu is causing many more deaths than COVID-19, and the tragedy is that many people die because they consider it ‘just the flu,’” says Dr. Poland.”
Because they tell themselves “it’s just the flu”?
And it’s a small non diverse country.
“Taiwan’s Central Epidemic Command Center was activated on Jan. 20, and between then and Feb. 24, it took 124 actions based on assessments gathered from the country’s integration of big data and technology.”
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There ya go.
And note.
Taiwan is not in the WHO because China has them banned.
China is trying to sneak infected people in to Taiwan.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3824379/posts
the CDC always had (STOPPED BY THE ELECTED PRESIDENT)
more interest in bringing in diseases, and transferring
the infected to every state, RATHER THAN DEVELOPING
a medical infrastructure WITHOUT CHINA.
How many at the CDC are being paid by the Chinese?
Shh - it’s Trump’s fault!
49 confirmed cases....out of how many tested?
1 death.....from those 49?
The way numbers are being thrown around and “patterns” being half told (if they are even truthful at all), I believe nothing reported by the media.
Clearly they are racist for closing their border. They are xenophobes against chinese. /sarcasm
One big reason is that they are treating a lot of their patients with zinc and hydroxychloroquine (a medication typically used for malaria).
It allows the zinc to enter the lung cells due to the chloroquine acting as a zinc ionaphor.
Inter-cellular zinc inhibits the virus from replicating after it has already infected the lung and attached to an ACE2 receptor.
South Korea has been using this extensively as well.
Who are they praying to?
Oops, sorry folks. I misread 49 as the number of Taiwanese deaths. Disregard my math above. Mea culpa.
Say it. Kung Flu.
Flu Manchu.
It’s a highly diverse country. Besides the han you have different Austronesian groups
In Taiwan. They’re not communist scum bag losers who give not a whit about their own people and would be happy to see them die
Next question ?
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