Posted on 05/11/2020 3:05:02 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
No new COVID-19 cases were reported yesterday, marking the 28th day with no domestic cases reported in the nation, Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung said yesterday.
“Today is also Mother’s Day, so we would like to present our record of no domestic cases having been reported in 28 consecutive days as a gift for all mothers, hoping that everyone can feel safer,” said Chen, who heads the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC).
However, people should not let their guard down and should thoroughly practice the “new disease prevention lifestyle” to achieve an even higher level of safety, he said.
The number of confirmed cases in Taiwan remains at 440, of whom 366 have been removed from isolation after recovering, Chen said.
With the hard work of healthcare professionals, Taiwan has achieved an 83 percent recovery rate for COVID-19, compared with a global average of 34 percent, he said.
The death rate of COVID-19 in Taiwan is about 0.3 per million population, against a global average of 36 per million population, he added.
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You mean the president was right about it going away?
Vietnam is about the same.
This last weekend, they started to open the western-facing places, this is the first week I have seen them open.
About the same here, as far as the spread.
There were apparently about 15 people who attempted to enter the country about a week ago, but I believe they were not admitted. Not sure the details.
Otherwise, things are starting to return to some degree of normal.
No, it doesn’t just ‘go away.’
What Taiwan had that most nations didn’t have was an already existing legal and bureaucratic infrastructure for the purposes of dealing with epidemics. This was a result of the SARS epidemic of 2002. Taiwan created the CECC (Central Epidemic Command Center), they established what the legal powers and responsibilities of the CECC would be, which members of government would be part of it, how it would interface with local authorities, etc.
There was actually several floors of an office building in Taipei that have been sitting empty for years, waiting for the CECC to be triggered, providing space for all the staff members to move in. The government made the decision to put the CECC into action the day before Taiwan reported its first case of COVID.
The main method Taiwan has managed the spread of Covid has been through extensive contact tracing. The fact that the CECC already existed allowed this coordination to occur. Whenever someone was diagnosed, there was an extensive effort by police and medical professionals to track down anyone and everyone who had close contact with the person who tested positive and then quarantine and test those people.
Through this method of diligent contact tracing, Taiwan has managed - despite all predictions being that, in the event of a novel virus emerging in China, Taiwan would be devastated - to be the single greatest success story, globally. Taiwan did this as a democracy without any great infringing of people’s rights, and they did it with a surprisingly low rate of testing.
Life is very, very normal here. Everything is open, sure you need to wear a mask to enter most stores and buildings, but masks were always a bigger part of daily culture here than back in the States. The only economic slowdown is a result of external factors, Taiwan is completely open for business.
Watching a government handle this crisis with such competency has left me utterly disgusted with the way the administration in the US has comported itself. It absolutely did not have to go the way it did in the US.
This means Taiwan has virtually no immunity to this virus. I wonder how long this can be maintained?.
Of all countries I think the Swedish model will in the end be the best. Their hospitals were not overrun, and their general population is at this point reaching immunity.
This of course assumes science is advanced to the point of really understanding pandemic mechanics. I suspect our scientific knowledge is vastly simplistic compared to our ego.
“Chen, who heads the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC).”
Let’s just fire Fauxi and hire this guy instead..
Some idiots allowed 22 infected people to be dumped on the streets there, but not a single new case resulted from it.
I wonder why...
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3931339
It’ll only go away if it can’t find new human hosts to infect.
Taiwan got way out ahead of it, way. They never got to “community spread” but were able to contact-trace and isolate their few cases.
That horse is WAY out of the barn in Europe and America.
The only way to follow Taiwan’s successful path is to turn back time to December 31.
Good news for them, but it focus our attention on the wrong thing. What matters here is how serious the disease is, not the number of cases or flattening the curve. If we look only at the number of cases, we’re going to be doing social distancing, masks, and travel restrictions forever. Freepers will remain obsessed with comparing the number of cases per million across local jurisdictions and national borders, never asking, “Is flattening the curve for this disease worth flattening the economy?”
Screw the plague-spreading ChiCom/ChiNazi dictatorship.
Compare Hong Kong with New York. New York is a bit bigger but less tightly packed. Look at the difference in infections and deaths. Note: HK is not the PRC in this regard, the numbers are not government lies.
Hong Kong has similar measures as Taiwan. They closed the city down to nonresidents. The stopped tourist from the PRC and stopped HK residents who lived in Shenzhen from crossing to work every day. Residents returning from abroad had to self-quarantine or be put in a converted summer camp AND wear a bracelet that had a GPS tracker for 2 weeks.
Everyone wears a mask. Every building has a hand sanitizer station. Most have mats soaked in sanitizer you walk over to enter. People took the issue seriously not like NYC and the “Hugg a Chinese” day.
The HK government bungles the protest last summer but they got this right.
I don’t get the desperation to achieve “herd immunity” without a vaccine. We didn’t get rid of polio or smallpox through herd immunity. Neither did this ‘go get sick’ idea protect us all from mumps or measles.
We should at least start the conversation. Punish China by recognizing Taiwan
There was never a vaccine or “herd immunity” from Spanish Flu. Eventually the mitigation measures cause the pandemic to fade away, because the bug can’t find enough new hosts in easy range to hop onto.
Taiwan is a model of success because they
1. Kept it out early and
2. Instituted effective mitigation early.
ChinaVirus never even reached community spread level in Taiwan. Therefore, they were able to keep up with its spread via contact tracing and isolation.
That horse is out of the barn in any nation that reaches community spread level, but that happened with Spanish Flu also, and it went away on its own by around 1920. Without a vaccine or herd immunity.
Herd immunity requires 2/3 of a population to be infected and recover, achieving immunity from that virus. We don’t even know yet if there is true permanent immunity to ChinaVirus. Meanwhile, on the way to hypothetical herd immunity, how many of that 2/3 of a population will die? Have ruined lungs? Ruined kidneys requiring lifetime dialysis?
I’m glad that Sweden is offering itself as an experiment, but I’m not sure that’s the path we want to try.
Sweden, which also is a world leader in euthenasia, does not even give oxygen to elderly covid patients, just morphine. “Adios, granny! See you in Valhalla!”
Not sure that’s the path we want to take.
After it's cleared for duty, Trump should send the Roosevelt carrier battle group for a port visit to Taipei.
Then land nearby on Air Force One and restore full diplomatic relations, nation to nation.
Let the ChiNazis scream all they want. The ChiNazis created and spread this virus to the world, and Taiwan showed us how to beat it. It's as simple as that.
Taiwan deserves respect and recognition, while Communist China deserves to be quarantined from the free world.
Exactly. See 14.
We have a long long road ahead of us, with so many idiots. It took us a century to become this stupid.
The point of “flattening the curve” was and is to buy time to prepare to safely “open” the country with strong testing/tracing infrastructure. This is time which was wasted in the US.
Not to mentionSweden does not have anywhere near the US population or travel to/fro.
And note: Taiwan never implemented a total lockdown !
This island has been TOTALLY TRANSPARENT in its dealings with the world.
We have to learn from them.
Also note: Th WHO has OSTRACIZED Taiwan from the organization under pressure from China.
You want to see how China would be like under a free and Democratic system? Look to no other place than Taiwan.
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