China: * Covered up COVID-19 for a couple weeks Trump: * Repeatedly said COVID-19 was about to disappear * Discouraged mask-wearing * Promoted quack cures * Called on armed protesters to stop social distancing measures * Tried to reduce testing to cover up a rise in cases
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The world was able to eliminate SARS in 2003. Now there are a few things in favor of SARS, but with an early start, and known transmission links and a focal point of origin, it was absolutely plausible. They screwed themselves first with the local cover-up, then the world.
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I fear you’re both correct: China COULD have done MUCH better, and this little bugger is WAY too slippery.
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No. Li Wenliang warned about it on 12/30/2019. There were already cases outside China by then. And instantly closing down a whole country in response to a few doctors' warnings about a new virus would have been unprecedented and unrealistic anyway. No, Zeynep.
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Has there even ever been a case of a novel virus with an R0 of 2 or more being contained by the country where it originated???
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Doctors aren’t screaming about 100 infections in late December. Doctors are screaming they have personally seen a large set of patients that have had it for weeks, after spreading enough to cause a siginificant case set to seek hospital care wit them.
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100 KNOWN cases.
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100 known and admitted cases.
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You clearly have no clue how fantastically quickly airborne virus can travel and spread. Start with the people who handled the bats. How many people did they infect? How many did those people infect? That’s just the beginning of one cohorts of exposed.
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Yes, Henry, please do tell me about how I have no idea about airborne spread. Also check out what I actually know.https://twitter.com/peterstaley/status/1289565286035750912 …
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