WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency
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#2Finally
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#3Could we perhaps solve this with Node.js?
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#4WHO spent the majority of the press briefing in very eerie and artificial sounding praise of China. Also, despite declaring a global emergency, they advise against restriction measures for international travel, which personally boggles the mind.
At some point they vapidly ask "Where is the science behind this?". The science behind this is the discovery of viruses and the impossibility of teleportation.
Re: WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency
#5WHO spent the majority of the press briefing in very eerie and artificial sounding praise of China. Also, despite declaring a global emergency, they advise against restriction measures for international travel, which personally boggles the mind. At some point they vapidly ask "Where is the science behind this?". The science behind this is the discovery of viruses and the impossibility of teleportation.
>they advise against restriction measures for international travel, which personally boggles the mind.
>At some point they vapidly ask "Where is the science behind this?". The science behind this is the discovery of viruses and the impossibility of teleportation.
but it's true though. there's limited evidence that travel bans will stop the spread of the infection. the evidence ranges between "no effect at all" to "delayed infection by a few days".
https://www.vox.com/2020/1/23/21078325/wuhan-china-coronavir...
Re: WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency
#6WHO spent the majority of the press briefing in very eerie and artificial sounding praise of China. Also, despite declaring a global emergency, they advise against restriction measures for international travel, which personally boggles the mind. At some point they vapidly ask "Where is the science behind this?". The science behind this is the discovery of viruses and the impossibility of teleportation.
WHO spent the majority of the press briefing in very eerie and artificial sounding praise of China.
I wonder if they don't want to piss off China and make it say, "Fine, we're not going to cooperate with you. We'll handle it ourselves."
From what I've read, China, and especially the Chinese government, doesn't seem to respond well to the sort of light criticism that people and governments in the west would blow off.
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#7Any good models that predict the peak of this?
Re: WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency
#8WHO spent the majority of the press briefing in very eerie and artificial sounding praise of China. Also, despite declaring a global emergency, they advise against restriction measures for international travel, which personally boggles the mind. At some point they vapidly ask "Where is the science behind this?". The science behind this is the discovery of viruses and the impossibility of teleportation.
Restrictions on trade and travel discourage nations from being forthright about their infection and death data.
Re: WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency
#9WHO spent the majority of the press briefing in very eerie and artificial sounding praise of China. Also, despite declaring a global emergency, they advise against restriction measures for international travel, which personally boggles the mind. At some point they vapidly ask "Where is the science behind this?". The science behind this is the discovery of viruses and the impossibility of teleportation.
> WHO spent the majority of the press briefing in very eerie and artificial sounding praise of China.
This was my favorite:
> "The main reason for this declaration is not what is happening in China but what is happening in other countries," said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
Obvious cautious tip-toe is obvious.
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#10Any good models that predict the peak of this?
You might want to give http://www.gleamviz.org/simulator/ whirl. You can simulate any epidemic model on a real-life datasets of mobility and healthcare access around the world.
The tricky part is know exactly what the "correct" epidemic model is: length of latent/infectious/etc periods, etc.
Full disclosure: I was once one of the main developers of this epidemic modeling framework.