Taiwan's health ministry on Thursday urged the elderly, very young and those with poor immunity to avoid travel to China due to the recent increase in respiratory illnesses there, a move some experts said was ineffective to manage public health risks.
    • Chainweasel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      11 months ago

      Considering this is almost the exact same time of year that Covid-19 was first being whispered amongst news sites, I can see why.

      And the first cases didn’t appear in the US until late January, so it’s definitely worth keeping an eye on. If it’s something new we haven’t seen before and not just another round of covid we’ll know in the next month or so

  • Kusimulkku@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    11 months ago

    I wonder if there was a legit possibility of another corona type thing if Chinese authorities would be more forthright and transparent about the situation than with corona.

    Corona made me super worried that they’d try to sweep another epidemic under the rug until it was too late

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    TAIPEI/SHANGHAI, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Taiwan’s health ministry on Thursday urged the elderly, very young and those with poor immunity to avoid travel to China due to the recent increase in respiratory illnesses there, a move some experts said was ineffective to manage public health risks.

    The World Health Organization (WHO) last week requested China provide detailed information on the spike, which a WHO official said was not as high as before the COVID-19 pandemic and that no unusual or novel pathogens had been detected.

    Shu-Ti Chiou, an epidemiologist at the Health & Sustainable Development Foundation in Taipei, said the advisory would lead the public to mistakenly believe they would not contract respiratory illnesses as long as they did not go to China.

    Rajib Dasgupta, an epidemiologist and professor of community health at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, also said “travel restrictions for respiratory infections are not an effective measure for interrupting transmission”.

    Some public health researchers said the travel advisory was reasonable, saying Taiwan was also likely to experience a surge in respiratory illnesses in winter and following the lifting of pandemic restrictions.

    China’s Taiwan affairs office and authorities in Hong Kong and Macau did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

    The original article contains 370 words, the summary contains 204 words. Saved 45%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!