por admin » Lun Mar 23, 2020 10:14 am
Cuanto daño se pudo haber evitado si China hubiera tomado medidas inmediatas y si hubiera advertido al mundo apenas ocurrió.
NYT
...”But Chinese officials did not alert the public to the risks in December. It wasn’t until Dec. 31 that they alerted the World Health Organization and released a statement — and a reassurance.“The disease is preventable and controllable,” the government said.
By the time Chinese officials acknowledged the risk of human-to-human transmission on Jan. 21, local outbreaks were already seeded in Beijing, Shanghai and other major cities.
Over 900 people went to New York every month on average, based on recent trends …
About 85 percent of infected travelers went undetected, researchers believe. But they were still contagious.
It was only at the end of January that Wuhan was placed under a lockdown and airlines started canceling flights. By Jan. 31, when the United States announced it would shut down entry from China for non-Americans, travel out of Wuhan had basically stopped.”