Donald McNeil: The Coronavirus Can Be Stopped, But Only With Harsh Measures, Experts Say

[Dennis Donovan]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/22/health/coronavirus-restrictions-us.html

Scientists who have fought pandemics describe difficult measures needed to defend the United States against a fast-moving pathogen.

By Donald G. McNeil Jr.
March 22, 2020

Terrifying though the coronavirus may be, it can be turned back. China, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan have demonstrated that, with furious efforts, the contagion can be brought to heel.

Whether they can keep it suppressed remains to be seen. But for the United States to repeat their successes will take extraordinary levels of coordination and money from the country’s leaders, and extraordinary levels of trust and cooperation from citizens. It will also require international partnerships in an interconnected world.

There is a chance to stop the coronavirus. This contagion has a weakness.

Although there are incidents of rampant spread, as happened on the cruise ship Diamond Princess, the coronavirus more often infects clusters of family members, friends and work colleagues, said Dr. David L. Heymann, who chairs an expert panel advising the World Health Organization on emergencies.

No one is certain why the virus travels in this way, but experts see an opening nonetheless. “You can contain clusters,” Dr. Heymann said. “You need to identify and stop discrete outbreaks, and then do rigorous contact tracing.”

But doing so takes intelligent, rapidly adaptive work by health officials, and near-total cooperation from the populace. Containment becomes realistic only when Americans realize that working together is the only way to protect themselves and their loved ones.

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The sooner they do this, the sooner it ends. So, do it already!!

[Celerity]

1. Trump will not do it, he is getting ready to completely pivot to blame the states and ALL Democrats

for EVERYTHING.

You know it's coming, his gaslit 100 million (counting the MAGAt's fams) will mostly suck it up and try to 'pwn the libs', even via their own deaths.

[rickyhall]

3. I hope you get it, Laura, you evil beast.

[RVN VET71]

7. And her fans watched this and just laughed and laughed

because, you know, environment and climate are snowflake issues, hardy har har. And so is this so-called "pandemic" thingy, ho ho. Wait, what? Our leader is saying we have to take measures to prevent its spread? Well, of course we must. Our leader has ALWAYS said we must take measures against this disease, unlike Obama who let millions of good white Americans die because open borders and George Soros.

[I could go on, but it just hurts too much.]

[Ponietz]

8. I think you're right--

bumble and shirk now to lay groundwork for martial law once obvious the governors never could do this by themselves.

It’s worst NY, CA, WA—all Dem strongholds—States most likely to feel the steel toes of jackboots when driven into civil disorder.

[Pobeka]

2. "No one is certain why the virus travels in this way"

... had to laugh at this one, probably it's a bad editor job, but the reason the virus infects people who hang out with each other, might just be because they hang out with each other and break the 6 foot rule a lot?

[BeckyDem]

4. Under the worst circumstances we have faced in a 100 years we also have

the greatest fraud for a president. That scares me more than the virus.

[Kaiserguy]

5. K&R

[dalton99a]

6. And a ruling political party that refuses to remove him

[BeckyDem]

13. Correct. If not under these circumstances then what would it take, right?

Disgusting.

[Maggiemayhem]

9. Virginia needs to close all bars and restaurants to patrons.

I see pictures on the news and they are not following the six foot rule at all. Talking to an infected person with close contact can spread the droplets even if they don’t cough or sneeze.

[OnDoutside]

10. Japan are talking about quarantining anyone arriving from the US. I think a lot of countries will do

the same.

[denem]

11. Quarantine the infected in camps

where Barr can Epstein them

[degage]

12. Clusters - Like the Cluster of Senators Rand Paul probably infected.

As soon as they start seeing more people who were around him get sick, they should file an ethics complaint on him.

[Javaman]

14. we have a dithering moron as a prez and here in texas, I have a governor that won't do anything

until commanded by the orange asshole in chief.


we are soooooooo fucked.