Back to basics public health measures IF only @POTUS would listen !
Rule 1: Listen to your scientists! Public Health experts should do daily briefings NOT @realDonaldTrump or @VP Politicians must step aside and let scientists lead the war against #COVID19 @DrDzul @ProfAdeeba
Rule 1: Listen to your scientists! Public Health experts should do daily briefings NOT @realDonaldTrump or @VP Politicians must step aside and let scientists lead the war against #COVID19 @DrDzul @ProfAdeeba
Rule 2: Enforce extreme NOT slow and/or incremental #SocialDistancing like Italy!
eg Clear Florida’s beaches.
China lockdown the #COVID19 epicenter #Wuhan and sent 40,000 HealthCare Providers #HCP to assist
eg Clear Florida’s beaches.
China lockdown the #COVID19 epicenter #Wuhan and sent 40,000 HealthCare Providers #HCP to assist
Rule 4: South Korea moved early and fast.
Facilitated 4 companies to make #CovidTests.
#DriveThru facilitated widespread testing.
US like M’sia must ramp up testing.
Protect the tester with appropriate #PPENow #SafetyFirst #ProtectHealthCareWorkers
Facilitated 4 companies to make #CovidTests.
#DriveThru facilitated widespread testing.
US like M’sia must ramp up testing.
Protect the tester with appropriate #PPENow #SafetyFirst #ProtectHealthCareWorkers
Rule 5: Like South Korea and Singapore, Malaysia and US must utilize #apps to do contact tracking.
Manual and paper tracing is jurassic and labor intensive.
GPS alerts of #CovidPositive where-abouts previous 48 hrs (ethical issues here)... to be ctd
Manual and paper tracing is jurassic and labor intensive.
GPS alerts of #CovidPositive where-abouts previous 48 hrs (ethical issues here)... to be ctd
Rule 6: #COVID occurs in family clusters.
Home isolation is a failed policy. 4 in a family of 7 died in New Jersey.
The 2 Sarawak ladies who returned from Italy, tested positive, and infected 10 other people including 3 first degree relatives who died
Home isolation is a failed policy. 4 in a family of 7 died in New Jersey.
The 2 Sarawak ladies who returned from Italy, tested positive, and infected 10 other people including 3 first degree relatives who died
Isolation facilities is the best option.
It will guarantee that the #COVID patient is quarantined and not loose into the community spreading the virus.
In South Korea, your where-about is tracked closely with GPS and if you break the quarantine you will be fined USD8,000.
It will guarantee that the #COVID patient is quarantined and not loose into the community spreading the virus.
In South Korea, your where-about is tracked closely with GPS and if you break the quarantine you will be fined USD8,000.
This is the new normal I am afraid, at least until the war against #SARSCoV2 is won. The liberal west is paying a high price for their misplaced obsession with individual autonomy and personal freedom @drmusanordin @ProfAdeeba @DrKhorSK @boosulyn @nazrikh @BFMradio @malaysiakini
This rule has had the unintended result of stigmatizing the mask wearers as either being contagious or a mask hoarder.
It is all about crowd psychology. If everyone wears a mask, the hesitant sick person will now be more willing to put on a mask because there will no more stigma
It is all about crowd psychology. If everyone wears a mask, the hesitant sick person will now be more willing to put on a mask because there will no more stigma
The face masks blocks the big projectile droplets that land in the nose or throat and cause spread of #COVID infection.
Like #SocialDistancing and #handwashing the #Mask4All policy has somewhat contributed to Asia better flattening the epidemic curve.
Like #SocialDistancing and #handwashing the #Mask4All policy has somewhat contributed to Asia better flattening the epidemic curve.
The potential of spread in schools, universities and other institutions of learning is contained by closing them.
Rule 8: Direct govt intervention is imp 2 ensure vital services eg food, water, essentials are preserved. And ensure adequate supplies of masks, PPE, oxygen & respirators.
Any opportunity at indecent profiteering must be stemmed with price controls/enforcement/punishments
Any opportunity at indecent profiteering must be stemmed with price controls/enforcement/punishments
The quartet of interventions-#testing #tracking #isolating #SocialDistancingNow apart from buying time for the healthcare services and infrastructure to cope, should also afford the opportunity to build a surge capacity, creating more covid dedicated hospitals, decanting...
of non-covid patients elsewhere, sourcing and securing stockpiles of lifesaving gadgets, PPEs, medicines, consumable etc, to prepare for the worst case scenario.
Rule 9: #FlattenTheCurve is also designed to buy time to enable the development of effective anti-covid medicines and vaccines. The former is now being researched in the WHO Solidarity Clinical Trial studying the efficacy of anti-HIV, anti-Malarial ...
and new anti-viral combinations.
And at least 2 anti-covid candidate vaccines are in phase 1 trials in the US and China. And another 2 from Australia and Israel in the second quarter.
And at least 2 anti-covid candidate vaccines are in phase 1 trials in the US and China. And another 2 from Australia and Israel in the second quarter.
Rule 10: The first world nations should assist the Lower and Middle Income Countries (LMIC) with resources to fight the covid virus.
WHO director general, upon declaring the novel coronavirus a pandemic, called for countries to learn from one another’s successes, act in unison..
WHO director general, upon declaring the novel coronavirus a pandemic, called for countries to learn from one another’s successes, act in unison..
.. and help protect one another against a common threat. “Let’s all look out for each other, because we’re in this together to do the right things with calm and to protect the citizens of the world.”
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