Posted on 03/31/2020 9:22:45 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Washington (AFP) - China's decision to lock down the city of Wuhan, ground zero for the global COVID-19 pandemic, may have prevented more than 700,000 new cases by delaying the spread of the virus, researchers said Tuesday.
Drastic Chinese control measures in the first 50 days of the epidemic bought other cities across the country valuable time to prepare and install their own restrictions, according to the paper by researchers in China, the United States and the UK, published in the journal Science.
By day 50 of the epidemic -- February 19 -- there were 30,000 confirmed cases in China, said Oxford fellow Christopher Dye, one of the paper's authors.
"Our analysis suggests that without the Wuhan travel ban and the national emergency response there would have been more than 700,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases outside of Wuhan by that date," he was quoted as saying in a press release.
"China's control measures appear to have worked by successfully breaking the chain of transmission -- preventing contact between infectious and susceptible people."
The researchers used a combination of case reports, public health information and mobile phone location tracking to investigate the spread of the virus.
The researchers "were able to compare patterns of travel into and out of Wuhan during the outbreak with cell phone data from two previous spring festivals," Bjornstad said.
"The analysis revealed an extraordinary reduction in movement following the travel ban of January 23, 2020. Based on this data, we could also calculate the likely reduction in Wuhan-associated cases in other cities across China."
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My model shows it much lower than that
I find it more likely that the CCP is lying.
Yay, China saved the world!
So the message is that authoritarian communism is great?
This is a lie.
The lockdown should have happened far earlier, but they lied about it and suppressed the doctors who raised the warnings.
Propaganda.
The new narrative is going to be that China was heroic in their response, but the truth is already known.
I’d really like to see the share of Chinese ownership of the world’s press organizations.
You’re not kidding.
Correct! You win some borscht!
https://www.takimag.com/article/speak-the-truth-shame-the-chinese/
There are times to avoid pointing fingers,
and there are times to point them so vigorously that you put someone’s eye out.
So let’s do some pointin’.
What heroes.
If PDJT had acted back in 2018 on this there wouldn’t be any.
One thing you’ll never see on HBO is a series like “Chernobyl” which implicates the ChiComs.
CCP Planted story
China cheerleading. Socialists everywhere are SO envious of the power the CCP has.
South Park will have a crack at them, I’m sure.
“And we got newspaper people on the payroll, don’t we, Tom?”
Devil Worshipin, Satanic Inspired, Kommies...
Liars
More Chi-Com lies.
Ah yes, "may", "could", "if", "possibly"...
And everyone turning around in a circle three times saying "COVID-19, go away! Don't come back any other day!" MAY eradicate the virus completely.
See how easy it is?
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