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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Singapore ALMOST had the virus contained... so close, but now it has taken off again."
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Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing
Singapore ALMOST had the virus contained... so close, but now it has taken off again. SG growth at least not exponential. Total: 243 Discharged: 109 Critical: 13 #COVID19 https://www.moh.gov.sg/news-highlights/details/four-more-cases-discharged-seventeen-new-cases-of-covid-19-infection-confirmed
10:24 AM - Mar 16, 2020
frazzled
(18,402 posts)closures, distancing, hygienic measures, etc. beyond the point when the curve is flattened.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)be careful not to grow content with the slightest bit of positive news that new infections are plateauing and revert prematurely to our normal social habits.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)This won't be over soon...
defacto7
(13,485 posts)their time line as they go forward. Singapore is a structured country in ways that would help pin down cause and effect.
MLAA
(17,327 posts)who previously were considered recovered. And how many if any were from being near those who recovered.
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)Ace Rothstein
(3,183 posts)Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)It won't "magically disappear in the spring".
scrabblequeen40
(334 posts)who thinks this is going to go away when summer rolls around.... because Trump said so and 'everyone knows flu season ends when warm weather is here.'
Ace Rothstein
(3,183 posts)They are seeing cases in warm weather locations currently.
Igel
(35,356 posts)It's the frequency. Summer colds and flu still happen. In summer the rates of both decline, but cases still happen.
So the appropriate information is the rate of transmission in warm versus cold climates.
Ace Rothstein
(3,183 posts)Brazil for example.
March 10: 34 confirmed cases.
March 12: 73 confirmed cases.
March 13: 98 confirmed cases.
March 14 121 confirmed cases.
I'm seeing that they are over 200 now.
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)Igel
(35,356 posts)You use distancing (compelled or voluntary) to slow the spread, but until the last case is closed and all traces on surfaces are eradicated, it can resume spreading.
It started with one person. It can resume with one person.
The only thing that changes over time is feedback effects from the number of immune people that an infected person comes in contact with.