Originally Posted by
waco
... unless we adopt the Chinese approach of total shutdown.
As a WHO official said in a recent interview with the New Scientist magazine ...
[shutdown] .
..that's the hard part, but not the really hard part.
To actually stop the virus, [China] had to do rapid testing of any suspect cases, immediate isolation of anyone who was a confirmed or suspect case,
and then quarantine the close contacts for 14 days so they could figure out if they were infected. These were the measures that stopped transmission
in China, not the big travel restrictions and lock-downs.