‘Out-of-home quarantine’ measures in China helped limit spread of COVID-19, epidemiologists say

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Canada’s official advice to those with mild symptoms is to ‘isolate yourself at home,’ in a separate room. But Chinese researchers point to centralized quarantine as a key reason Wuhan was able to limit the virus’s spread

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“And I think it’s a big mistake. It’s like they’re all just lemmings, walking off a cliff, not learning from countries that have succeeded.” “This quarantine measure did a great job in helping prevent domestic infection. It’s brilliant,” said Wu Tangchun, a public-health expert at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan. “There’s no doubt that it was a crucial factor in Wuhan’s victory.”He dismissed concerns about the human-rights implications of separating families.

“There’s billions of dollars in stimulus money being spent by government – here’s something that aligns directly with pandemic control,” a measure that’s good for both the economy and public health, said Craig Dalton, a public-health expert at the University of Newcastle who has promoted “pre-emptive, low-cost hygiene enhancement and social distancing,” including eating lunch alone and placing a sign on the front door that says: “Welcome if you are well.

In China, doctors point out that the tough measure is necessary to overcome a key obstacle to pandemic control: human nature.

 

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Not real they are a big layers they give some medical therby or at least they have the vaccine provided to their patiences chines big layers

North Korea has no active COVID 19 cases. They are all shot dead.

It works.

Why would anyone in the world listen to this lying, human rights abusing regime? Delete your account.

They dragged people out of their homes and who knows what happened to them. The measures taken by China are extreme.

They bloody well welded people in their apartments and left them to die

Yes let’s concentrate the sick into camps.

Scumbag globalist reporter from new rag called Globe and Mail sucks on propaganda from China contact. Evil stench to Globe catching TorontoStar virus of leftist nonsense.

Unfortunately I’m the sceptical type it’s - “ A big lie (German: große Lüge) is a propaganda technique and logical fallacy.

picardonhealth DFisman onpoli What do Ontario public health officials know - have they reviewed the data? What about here- we must know if an infection is due to close contact - Ontario reported that. How effective is our strategy of sending people home? What is the evidence?

None of us believe a word that comes from China and neither should our media.

If you believe anything that china has to say. I don't!

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