WHO warns United States could become coronavirus epicenter
reuters.com
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That's all that was said, no new facts in this article.
Someone who has a heart attack during the asymptomatic period was probably going to have one anyway.
When dealing with exponential functions, linear increases in effort early on lead to extremely large differences in outcomes later on. Our intuition is not very well equipped to understand this sort of situation.
This is bullshit. I can tell you that here in Kansas and Missouri they have given up on testing. You can only be tested if you present symptoms such that you require hospitalization and a doctor approves the test. Health care workers are told to self-quarantine if they think they are infected for seven days, but do not get the test. Yeah, should be 14 days, but we can't afford to loose people.
We are critically low on testing kits and protective gear such that CORVID is now considered community communicable and no point to test unless necessary. Kansas City has gone into lock down. We've moved to telemedicine, stopped elective surgeries, closed schools and non essential business.
EDIT: yes, of pets and items:
> When asked, "Is it safe to receive letters and parcels from China?" [WHO] Answered, "Coronaviruses are safe because they do not survive long on letters and other objects."
> In response to the question `` whether a new coronavirus can spread from pets '', `` at present there is no evidence that pets such as dogs and cats can be infected with the new coronavirus '' is.
There is also Taiwan showing that its likely China is misleading the WHO (would China ever do that!?)
EDIT: op added "of items" to his question, dramatically changing it
Why would the WHO have any credibility after this?
Normal (i.e. non-sick) people don't need masks, this is good advice. As a matter of fact buying masks is actively harmful, because you are depriving people who do need them (the sick and their caregivers).
Source: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prepare/prevention...
(No comment on the rest of the tweets though)
The city is on track to surpass Wuhan in just a few days and we're still lagging behind in our ability to test.
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1242242633050861568/ph...
However, what the WHO need to do it act as part of the problem over many missed opportunities that will now playout whatever happens and with that, the USA will see it become the epicenter soon.
But long term, there are countries with less medical and health standards that are large and with lesser international flights, bit behind the growth rate. But they will only catch up and eventually overtake and what will the WHO do in preventing that? Beyond a tweet saying how XXX country is now the epicenter and solve nothing.
We have seen some bad misinformation come out from WHO and with that, this latest comment from them fits into the other form of output - unhelpful and too late to stop, whatever will happen.
The US seems to be preparing itself quite well to handle the scale of severe cases. And I hope they walk the talk. And increased testing is obviously going to increase the number of cases.