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"
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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
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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 -
So instead of trying to stop the spread, we should just slow it instead and accept millions dead in every country? Every country has to try to emulate China’s response to the best of their ability.
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It has to be "part of the discussion" More important than stopping or slowing the virus is the general principle that every decision must be made by committee (staffed by progressives).
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These Twitter experts said that China’s measures wouldn’t work. China have showed that they work and now what do they say? They say no other country should bother trying because they are not China. Almost as if they want millions to die.
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They're probably not wrong that other countries couldn't take China's measures successfully because we've spent 60 years remaking our societies into ones that can't. It's more important to them that none of those measures get undone than that we stop a disease.
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