You seem ill informed. On Jan 22 the Chinese started isolated Wuhan. Other countries put curbs in place on citizens returning from Wuhan. The individual countries arranged flights to get their their citizens home.
Coronavirus: China advises against travel to Wuhan as deaths surge 22 January 2020
Chinese authorities have urged people to stop travelling in and out of Wuhan, the city at the centre of a new virus outbreak that has killed 17 people. Late on Wednesday the Chinese authorities confirmed the number of dead had almost doubled - from nine - in the space of a day. All fatalities so far have been in Hubei, the province around Wuhan.
Chinese authorities admitted the country was now at the "most critical stage" of prevention and control.
"Basically, do not go to Wuhan. And those in Wuhan please do not leave the city," said National Health Commission vice-minister Li Bin in one of the first public briefings since the beginning of the outbreak.
Earlier this week, China confirmed that human-to-human transmission of the virus had taken place. The first US case was confirmed on Tuesday. President Donald Trump said the situation was "totally under control" and that he trusted the information being provided by Chinese authorities.
Officials say efforts to control the outbreak are at a critical stage as fatalities double in a day.
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Jan 22, 2020 — BEIJING — Chinese health authorities are trying to lock down
Wuhan, the metropolis of 11 million people that is at the heart of a spreading coronavirus outbreak, ...
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The evidence on travel bans for diseases like coronavirus is clear: They don’t work
They’re political theater, not good public health policy. Jan 23, 2020
On Sunday evening, the US government followed a
slew of other countries and began enforcing a
new coronavirus travel ban: Foreigners who visited China in the past two weeks are temporarily barred from entering the country, while US citizens who have been to China’s Hubei province — where the outbreak originated — will have to be quarantined for 14 days. Russia, Australia, Japan, and Italy have announced similar restrictions.
They’re political theater, not good public health policy.
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People are not getting the medical treatment due to the covid disruption. They already know the rates will be down because of it and will be greater in the future when the people we miss this year and last finally get diagnosed. It is not rocket science.
Cancer is still the second leading cause of the death in the US. According to the report, 1,898,160 new cancer cases and 608,570 cancer deaths are expected in 2021. These estimates do not include the potential effects of COVID-19 on cancer diagnoses and outcomes, says Rebecca Siegel, a cancer epidemiologist at the American Cancer Society and the lead author of the study, in the statement. “We anticipate that disruptions in access to cancer care in 2020 will lead to downstream increases in advanced stage diagnoses that may impede progress in reducing cancer mortality rates in the years to come.”
From 2017 to 2018, cancer deaths dropped by 2.4 percent, the largest single-year improvement recorded in 70 years of American Cancer Society annual cancer reports.
www.the-scientist.com
How does the flu being down make the covid virus seem not so bad? The Flu is down because we are taking steps to limit the spread of covid and those steps limit Flu transmission.
Use your brain. There was a shortage of manufactured masks when he said it. They did not want people to go out and scoop up all the masks that should be going to medical people. It got so bad that medical people were making their own masks out of fabric. And that changed the idea of wearing a mask. People could make their own and not divert much needed masks from medical staff. The doubling of masks causes the inner mask to be held tighter on the face so air does not just get exhausted through gaps and not filtered through the fabric.
We do not know enough of what was going on with Biden's. As far as Russia, the big question was the Trump Tower meeting. Discussing orphans? BS. The only reason Trump got away on the Russian thing was he stonewalled on being interviewed (obviously Clinton didn't) and Maniford acted like a good coconsiritor and kept his mouth shut getting him a pardon. Things would have been much different if they were able to indict Trump while he was in office. Why have they not done so yet? Because it would muddy up this current impeachment. The last shoe has not dropped yet.
Trump is racist but he has greater faults that overshadows that. As far as people being unsure where the economic wind blows, heck, that is normal in a change in administrations and doubly so with the pandemic. We have not had a change in political leaders up in Canada and people are just as cautious up here. This is a major worldwide disruption.