Re:WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency
by feanaro on Thursday January 30, 2020 @03:37PM
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There are many variables when it comes to travel restriction. "Travel restriction" is simply not a binary category which you either have or do not have. Hence, I'm unconvinced by a universal conclusion of "travel restriction does not work" from a few retrospective studies of a few heterogeneous cases of past travel restrictions. I maintain that we should not give in to the conclusion that global spread of infections is simply inevitable, except by chance, and write off restricted mobility completely.
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Re:WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency
by duckMuppet on Thursday January 30, 2020 @03:52PM
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While it's true you cannot prevent with certainty every possibility of the virus coming here, but by implementing travel restrictions you do inhibit and create barriers of it's spread.
This can mean The difference between multiple cities being ravaged by a disease instead of smaller groups of infected individuals.
Re:WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency
by gruez on Thursday January 30, 2020 @04:00PM
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>This can mean The difference between multiple cities being ravaged by a disease instead of smaller groups of infected individuals.
That sounds nice in theory, but there's no literature backing this up.
Re:WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency
by feanaro on Thursday January 30, 2020 @04:12PM
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On the other hand, there simply cannot be literature to back it up unless it is tried systematically. These two things are in direct opposition. In any other experiment, we wouldn't treat the presently available level of evidence as indicative of the final state of knowledge on the matter.