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Home Quarantine Repeats China's Mistake, Doctors Say
[Bloomberg] "Due to lockdown, most of the transmission that's actually happening in many countries now is happening in the household at family level," Mike Ryan, head of health emergencies at the World Health Organization, said in a briefing on Monday. "Now we need to go and look in families and find those people that may be sick and remove them and isolate them in a safe and dignified manner."Wuhan began quarantining all mild cases in makeshift hospitals converted from offices, stadiums and gymnasiums in early February, a move that helped dramatically slow the spread of the virus. The city where the virus first emerged last December has successfully contained the outbreak, according to official figures that show few new infections
Liang said his team advised Italy to follow China's lead to forcibly isolate patients with mild symptoms from their families. In China, a study of one province showed that 80% of cluster infections originated from people told to rest at home, according to Xiao Ning, a researcher from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention who was part of the team. Want to know what happened in China? Ask some Chinese in Italy. This wouldn't work as well as lockdown, because of asymptomatic spreaders. Related: World Health Organization: 2020-03-28 Coronaplague Roundup: House approves $2.2 trillion coronavirus aid package World Health Organization: 2020-03-27 New York Times Goes Into Full Chinese Propaganda Mode As U.S. Coronavirus Cases Exceed 80,000 World Health Organization: 2020-03-26 China Is Innocent: Says U.N. and World Health Organization Reject Claim it Launched Coronavirus Pandemic Posted by: KBK 2020-03-31 |
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