Anyone doubting the value of suppressing coronavirus, Belgium has recorded 18,545 deaths in a population of 11.6 million. One person in every 630 has died from Covid-19.
Estonia recorded just 174 deaths in 1.3 million - just 8% of the Belgian rate.
Estonia recorded just 174 deaths in 1.3 million - just 8% of the Belgian rate.
Countries that have taken STRONG and EARLY measures include Cambodia, Laos, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, China and most of Africa (shown on the same scale here) - with mortality rates 0.5% of the rate recorded by Belgium.
Why are we obstinately rejecting effective suppression?
Why are we obstinately rejecting effective suppression?
WHO Step 1: "Mobilize all sectors and communities to ensure that every sector of government and society takes ownership of and participates in the response and in preventing cases through hand hygiene, respiratory etiquette and individual-level physical distancing."
WHO Step 2: "Control sporadic cases and clusters and prevent community transmission by rapidly finding and isolating all cases; providing them with appropriate care; and tracing, quarantining, and supporting all contacts."
WHO Step 3: "Suppress community transmission through context-appropriate infection prevention and control (IPC) measures, population level physical distancing measures and appropriate and proportionate restrictions on non-essential domestic and international travel."
Instead of bottom-up ownership, empowerment and support, Europe has dis-empowered society with a top-down, lobbyist-driven failure to strategise any action that interferes with immediate business activity.
The trade-off is economic harm now, and greater economic harm later.
The trade-off is economic harm now, and greater economic harm later.
WHO guidance: who.int/publications/i…
"People need incentives to get tested, and it must be easy. Those who test positive need to self-isolate and they need financial support to do so. Their contacts need to be quickly traced." - New Scientist,
https://twitter.com/StuartDNeilson/status/1340247572661874694?s=20
The highest mortality countries in the world are in Europe, the US and in South America. This is not climate, genetics or travel connectivity. This is political and social failure, ingrained in top-down, bureaucratic incompetence.
The EU (blue) and Europe dominate the highest 50 mortality and incidence rates in the world.
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