07-03-2020, 04:08 PM
The response of Taiwan provides a complete refutation of any excuse making for the response of the US people and politicians.
Taiwan knew something serious was happening on December 31 and notified the WHO. But it did not wait for the WHO to act, it took action to mobilize its response. To say that the US does not have complete transparency to one of its closest allies is not believable. It is much more believable that the administration closed its eyes.
Here’s What It Really Knew and When
https://time.com/5826025/taiwan-who-trum...s-covid19/
At 6:30 a.m. on Dec. 31, Dr. Lo at Taiwan’s CDC woke to an alert on his phone.
His colleagues in the media monitoring unit had detected social media posts about a pneumonia of unknown cause in Wuhan...
Two Taiwanese clinicians, along with experts from Hong Kong and Macau, were on one of the first fact-finding teams to visit Wuhan. The Jan. 13-15 trip ...
Finally, he says an official admitted there were two family clusters among the confirmed cases, one involving a husband and his physically disabled wife. “The possibility of his wife [going] to the seafood market is zero so we can pretty much be sure that the husband transmitted it to his wife,” says Chuang. That knowledge was a game-changer...
Soon after the fact-finding team returned, Taiwan activated its Central Epidemic Command Center to coordinate an outbreak response. That was three days before Wuhan was locked down. Apprehensive about the information coming out of China, Taiwan remained hyper-vigilant, Lo says.
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Taiwan nailed the virus immediately. It quickly put into place protocols that allowed it to reopen schools in February after a somewhat extended Lunar New Year break. There was no silly debate about wearing masks. At that point, the US had not even started to debate closing schools because very few people in the US were taking COVID seriously in February. Four months later, wearing masks is still not fully mandatory in the US.
Taiwan knew something serious was happening on December 31 and notified the WHO. But it did not wait for the WHO to act, it took action to mobilize its response. To say that the US does not have complete transparency to one of its closest allies is not believable. It is much more believable that the administration closed its eyes.
Here’s What It Really Knew and When
https://time.com/5826025/taiwan-who-trum...s-covid19/
At 6:30 a.m. on Dec. 31, Dr. Lo at Taiwan’s CDC woke to an alert on his phone.
His colleagues in the media monitoring unit had detected social media posts about a pneumonia of unknown cause in Wuhan...
Two Taiwanese clinicians, along with experts from Hong Kong and Macau, were on one of the first fact-finding teams to visit Wuhan. The Jan. 13-15 trip ...
Finally, he says an official admitted there were two family clusters among the confirmed cases, one involving a husband and his physically disabled wife. “The possibility of his wife [going] to the seafood market is zero so we can pretty much be sure that the husband transmitted it to his wife,” says Chuang. That knowledge was a game-changer...
Soon after the fact-finding team returned, Taiwan activated its Central Epidemic Command Center to coordinate an outbreak response. That was three days before Wuhan was locked down. Apprehensive about the information coming out of China, Taiwan remained hyper-vigilant, Lo says.
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Taiwan nailed the virus immediately. It quickly put into place protocols that allowed it to reopen schools in February after a somewhat extended Lunar New Year break. There was no silly debate about wearing masks. At that point, the US had not even started to debate closing schools because very few people in the US were taking COVID seriously in February. Four months later, wearing masks is still not fully mandatory in the US.