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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCoronavirus Cases Inch Back up in Asia, Denting Hopes That Disease Was Contained
https://www.thedailybeast.com/coronavirus-cases-resurge-in-asia-crushing-hopes-that-disease-was-contained?ref=homeCoronavirus Cases Inch Back up in Asia, Denting Hopes That Disease Was Contained
TEMPORARY SUCCESS
Jamie Ross, Reporter
Updated Mar. 18, 2020 7:56AM ET /
Published Mar. 18, 2020 5:29AM ET
REUTERS
As Europe and the United States try to deal with their first waves of the coronavirus pandemic, there are concerning signs coming from Asia that this could only be the beginning of the struggle. The Financial Times reports that virus cases have inched back up in several Asian countries, denting hopes that strict containment measures introduced throughout the continent had been successful. The governments of South Korea, Taiwan, and some parts of China are reportedly bringing in urgent new containment measures after seeing rises in new infections after weeks of declines. What many people hadnt recognized is that it is only a temporary success, it is not a permanent success, Ben Cowling, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Hong Kong, told the FT. Infections appear to have increased as people fled home from the coronavirus outbreak in Europe, but the resurgence may also expose the limits of the containment strategy.
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Coronavirus Cases Inch Back up in Asia, Denting Hopes That Disease Was Contained (Original Post)
babylonsister
Mar 2020
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mucifer
(23,554 posts)1. Hopefully it's not like the 1918 flu coming in horrible waves
FarPoint
(12,409 posts)3. I expect the waves....
Not until we get a vaccine....I suspect this will be a roller coaster ride with peaks and valleys and in target clusters for the next 18 months..
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)2. Boy this is bad. I am seriously rooting for a therapeutic
medicine to come online soon. Our nursing and community homes are on borrowed time.