Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus not contained

Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus... by yibg on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @02:55AM (#22421216)

China can be held responsible for the slow early response and attempt to cover things up as well as being praised for the decisive efforts at containment later on.

I don’t want to let them off the hook for down playing this thing early on but I’m not sure how much more effective containment would’ve been if this happened in another dense country. Say Japan, India or somewhere in Europe.

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Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus... by iCarrot on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @03:42AM (#22421435)

Or say the US. In 2009 pandemic, the influenza A H1N1 pdm-09 originated from Mexico, spread to the US, and then to the world.

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Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus... by Retric on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @08:27AM (#22422664)

By comparison pdm-09 would have killed somewhere between 8 and 60 people with ~78,064 infections not 2,715 and counting. Thus reasonably getting a vastly lower response.

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