It’s been 100 days since the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic. Several important red flags were missed, so what can we learn from those mistakes?
“COVID-19 rapidly spread from a single city to the entire country in just 30 days,” a Feb. 24 paper on the fatality rates of the disease in the peer-reviewed medical journal JAMA found. “The sheer speed of both the geographical expansion and the sudden increase in numbers of cases surprised and quickly overwhelmed health and public-health services in China.
2. After two months of obfuscation over the efficacy of face masks and New York City becoming the epicenter of the pandemic in the U.S., the Trump administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the WHO and Cuomo, a Democrat, finally agreed on one thing: All Americans should, after all, wear face coverings in public settings. That happened more than a month after the WHO declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic.
Previous studies have concluded that face masks have helped reduce contagion by reducing droplets being sprayed into the air during flu season. It may be that they work in a small amount of cases and/or just wearing them helps to promote healthy behaviors. Some health experts say that was an unnecessary distraction that wasted valuable time. On Monday, the FDA said that it had withdrawn the EUA granted to hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine during the COVID-19 pandemic.
4. It’s time to have fun and go to the beach, right? Wrong! Florida, Alabama, Arizona, California, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina and Texas have all seen a surge in cases over the last week as businesses reopen and people relax their social-distancing policies, CNN reported this week. In fact, some analysts say that Florida could be the next epicenter of the virus as New York continues to flatten the curve of new cases.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
Mistake 4: Not unfollowing Marketwatch earlier
Mistake 1 - going into lockdown at all
Mistake 4: Trump not taking it even half seriously until mid-March. Mistake 5: China didn't tell the WHO for almost 2 months. Mistake 6: Governors, including NYGovCuomo, didn't shut-down states in February.
lol, if you're not part of the solution (media), you're part of the problem!
2 was a big misguidance from CDC, WHO, and even CNN. 4 Trump leadership is the biggest mistake of them all as he continues to downplay it by holding mass indoor rally of 19K supporters.
Mistakes 1-5: sending the sick to nursing homes where the occupants where annihilated.
Lies
Who would make all those common sense mistakes?
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