02-10-2020, 10:58 AM
** 10-Feb-2020 World View: China buying us time
(02-10-2020, 01:18 AM)Warren Dew Wrote: > ... provided we can make greater strides in epidemiology and
> disease control over the next few weeks than we have in the past
> century.
Quote:> Christopher Smith: "What the Chinese are doing is
> buying us all time. By holding the tide of this back and the
> spread of this back it's slowing down the rate at which it ramps
> up in certainly that geography, but in connected geographies. And
> the more time we have, the more we can learn about this thing.
> The more we learn about this thing, the more we know how to
> mitigate it. And that would include things like, will a vaccine
> work? Who's vulnerable to this? Who do we need to focus our
> efforts and our attention on to protect them, because they may be
> at higher risk than other people, for example. Pregnant women,
> for example, stand out as people who were very, very vulnerable in
> the SARS epidemic. We would therefore want to consider their
> welfare ahead of all others. We've learned that through the
> experience, and the more time we have, the more we can learn, and
> the better prepared we'll be."