'This decline is real': WHO experts find hope in coronavirus crackdown

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The slowdown in coronavirus cases out of China offers a sliver of hope that the global outbreak can be controlled, but drastic measures may be required, according to public health authorities

But emergency medicine physician Dr Leana Wen, a public health professor at George Washington University, said widespread quarantines, lockdowns and travel bans of the sort ordered by China's regime are unlikely to be used in other countries. How those less-aggressive approaches will play out is unclear, she said.

While the crisis appears to be easing in China, alarming clusters have turned up in Italy, Iran and South Korea. On Thursday evening Iran and Italy were reporting close to 3000 cases each. South Korea had more than 5700. Dr Albert Ko, a professor and department chairman at the Yale School of Public Health, said there were signs that the spread in China might have started slowing down even before authorities there implemented a travel ban and closed off Wuhan, the epicentre, in late January. That's an argument for more conventional public health measures, including widespread testing, limiting of social gatherings and the closing of some schools.

 

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There is some truth in there....maybe....but at the end of the day it’s all about eroding personal freedoms and pushing mostly useless vaccines to make a lot of money.

Track, test and isolate. Provide help and instructions to isolated people.

China always tells the truth ? as do the SMH ...cases have been reported 500 million in China with 20,000 deaths but you need to go to pod casts out of China to get close to the facts?

THE CHINESE HAVE CREATED THE CORONAVIRUS TO STOP THE HONG KONG PROTESTS

China just underreported the true number. As CCP’s priority is keep it in power and the social stability.

Who says its slowing down in China... the same China that didn't tell us about the coronavirus. The virus information was leaked by a doctor who suddenly died by the virus, or so we are told. auspol

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