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Re:WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency by duckMuppet on Thursday January 30, 2020 @03:52PM (#22195437)
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.

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Re:WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency by gruez on Thursday January 30, 2020 @04:00PM (#22195515)
>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.

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Re:WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency by feanaro on Thursday January 30, 2020 @04:12PM (#22195656)
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.
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