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China is now seeing a wave of secondary infections as they relax travel restrictions and as people enter the country from elsewhere. They have not stopped the s
by sulam 7y ago
China is now seeing a wave of secondary infections as they relax travel restrictions and as people enter the country from elsewhere. They have not stopped the spread, they simply slowed it down.
- CydeWeys 7y agoAnd that in itself is a huge accomplishment that will save many lives.
- Spooky23 7y agoThat's the whole point. If you slow it down you can avoid the rapid spike in severe cases that overwhelm the system. It's like traffic -- once you surpass a certain volume, the system locks up and throughput drops.
- jessriedel 7y agoWhat is your source? I can't see anything visible in the Hopkins data, and all news stories seem to be about continued stability in China.
- wholien 7y agosource? China seems to have very low numbers of new infections right now
- sulam 7y agoI work for a company with significant manufacturing in China, our source is people on the ground. So, Anecdata, but well-connected anecdata.
- ummonk 7y agoI think the point was to do a controlled restart while making sure the rate of secondary infections remains low enough that the impact of the coronavirus remains less than the flu.