I intended to say "I feel pretty certain that any effort to contain this virus will not be effective."
And then I read "Strategy for Now Isn’t to Stop It, But to Slow It"
Apparently, I was right.
It appears that sooner or later everyone is going to get the disease.
And then I read "Strategy for Now Isn’t to Stop It, But to Slow It"
Apparently, I was right.
It appears that sooner or later everyone is going to get the disease.
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FEBRUARY 5, 2020, BY CNN WIRE, UPDATED AT 04:44AM, FEBRUARY 5, 20 It has been two weeks since the first US case of Wuhan coronavirus (https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/21/health/wuhan-coronavirus-first-us-case-cdc-bn/index.html) was announced, and the US strategy to fight it has become clear: It’s...flutrackers.com
Coronavirus: U.S. Strategy for Now Isn’t to Stop It, But to Slow It
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FEBRUARY 5, 2020, BY CNN WIRE, UPDATED AT 04:44AM, FEBRUARY 5, 20
It has been two weeks since the first US case of Wuhan coronavirus was announced, and the US strategy to fight it has become clear: It’s impossible to stop this virus right now — it can only be slowed down.
There are several reasons why.
First, people are flying into the United States every day from China, where the newly discovered virus has infected thousands of people. While there are health screenings at US airports, quarantines for some passengers and even limits on who is allowed into the United States, a government official says there’s no way to catch every infected person.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expects to find more coronavirus cases in the United States, and more cases involving person-to-person transmission. Still, it says, the risk to the American public is low.
“It’s important to know that this strategy is not meant to catch every single traveler returning from China with novel coronavirus,” Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said at a press briefing Monday. “Given the nature of this virus and how it’s spreading, that would be impossible. But working together, we can catch the majority of them.”
The goal instead is “to slow the entry of this virus into the United States,” she said.
It’s now a much more daunting task to screen travelers from China than during the SARS outbreak in 2003, said Dr. William Schaffner, a longtime CDC adviser...The CDC had said it was trying to get the test out to state health departments to speed things up.
“This is very, very important, and I think the CDC recognizes that,” said Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. “I think they’re working literally day and night to get these testing kits assembled and training done so state health departments can do this testing.”
Further complicating matters is that the test isn’t always accurate.
The FDA noted that negative results on the test do not preclude infection with the virus, and negative results must be combined with clinical observations, patient history and epidemiological information....
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