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babylonsister

(171,074 posts)
Wed Mar 18, 2020, 08:38 AM Mar 2020

Coronavirus 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=home

Coronavirus 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 hadn’t 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 OP
Hopefully it's not like the 1918 flu coming in horrible waves mucifer Mar 2020 #1
I expect the waves.... FarPoint Mar 2020 #3
Boy this is bad. I am seriously rooting for a therapeutic bronxiteforever Mar 2020 #2

FarPoint

(12,409 posts)
3. I expect the waves....
Wed Mar 18, 2020, 08:59 AM
Mar 2020

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
Wed Mar 18, 2020, 08:44 AM
Mar 2020

medicine to come online soon. Our nursing and community homes are on borrowed time.

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