Bruce Aylward, just off the plane from China, giving press conference now in Geneva on joint @WHO-China mission on #COVID19.
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Reminds room of genesis: "decision by the president of China in the meeting with
@DrTedros, with a joint feeling that China had done a huge amount of work and it could inform both the global response and China’s own response to have an independent mission come in and do a review"1 reply 9 retweets 58 likesShow this thread -
Team was made up of 25 people, 13 internationals and 12 Chinese, headed by Aylward. “"e saw facilities, we saw contact tracing, we saw markets in some places, we saw railway stations, airports. Really it was quite an exhaustive and exhausting schedule.”
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What has China done to fight
#COVID19? "They have taken very standard and what some people think of as old-fashioned public health tools and applied these with a rigour and innovation of approach on a scale that we have never seen in history”, says Aylward.2 replies 36 retweets 95 likesShow this thread -
Aylward arguing that China basically applied case finding, contact tracing, social distancing etc. at unprecedented scale and that while people were skeptical that could work for respiratory virus like
#SARSCoV2, it had a huge positive impact.5 replies 40 retweets 125 likesShow this thread -
Says people think of lockdown of Wuhan, but actually China used the same approach to different degrees in places depending on whether there were no cases of
#COVID19, sporadic cases, clusters or community transmission. "fundamentals were always the same”, but tailored to locale.1 reply 20 retweets 77 likesShow this thread -
Aylward so far reiterating what he said yesterday at presser in China. Sounding extremely positive about Chinese actions: “China changed the course of this outbreak." “They mobilised a phenomenal collective action.” Prevented hundreds of thousands of cases of
#COVID19, he says.5 replies 29 retweets 96 likesShow this thread -
Am I the only one missing some kind of contextualising of Chinese actions in terms of political system, human rights, etc. ? Not all the lessons here can be applied elsewhere to combat
#COVID19. And not all should be. Needs to be part of discussion surely.24 replies 68 retweets 357 likesShow this thread
Sure, maybe they kept millions from dying at the price of temporary inconvenience but that's just not who we are!
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