Re:‘I’m not an epidemiologist but’: The rise of the corona i...
by piyh on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @05:45PM
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We also had China set the tone with the largest quarantine in history. Leaders are looking at the precedent on how to act.
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Re:‘I’m not an epidemiologist but’: The rise of the corona i...
by nostromo on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @05:49PM
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That is very true.
Keep in mind the original SARS had a death rate of 10%, so obviously there was a tremendous amount of fear that this new related virus would be similarly lethal.
Re:‘I’m not an epidemiologist but’: The rise of the corona i...
by dragonwriter on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @06:20PM
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> Leaders are looking at the precedent on how to act.
No, they aren't US policy of suppression was an abrupt policy turn that came with this report: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/196234/covid19-imperial-rese...
The Chinese example didn't change overnight, the information available about predicted outcomes of different policy approaches in the US and UK did, and that's what drove policy change, including the Trump Administration flipping from claiming it was a hoax cooked up by political opponents to treating it as a serious issue.