"Bob F" wrote in message
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On 8/11/2020 10:40 AM, %% wrote:


"Bod" wrote in message
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Some countries have been devastated by the novel coronavirus, and others
have escaped lightly.

Why the extreme differences?

Primarily very quickly preventing people from entering their
country once it because clear that this virus is a problem.
That was the case with Taiwan, Vietnam and New Zealand.

And the most badly effected like the UK, Italy, USA and Brazil didnt.

The main one is that countries that quickly resorted to widespread
mask-wearing had far lower death rates and shorter outbreaks, a new
study argues.

Thats not accurate.

https://globalnews.ca/news/7075024/m...avirus-deaths/


Wrong, as always.

We'll see...

"8

Masks: Early Adoption.
The World Health Organization initially advised against widespread mask
wearing by the public,

Irrelevant to what asian countries particularly actually did.

as did the United States CDC.1,48 The WHO reversed course and recommended
masks in public on June 5, 2020.49 Despite these initial recommendations,
a number of countries did favor mask wear by the public early in their
outbreak,

Not only favoured, but in fact required them to be worn.

and such countries experienced low coronavirus-related mortality (Table 2,
Table A1, Figure 1).50-68,S1-S301 It is likely that in Mongolia and Laos,
both of which reported no coronavirus-related mortality by May 9, the
public began
wearing masks before any cases were confirmed in their countries

And the reason they got cases later was just because they
didnt see many infected people arriving in their country,
not because they wore masks before any arrived.

(Table 2). We identified 22 additional countries with recommendations or
cultural norms favoring mask-
wearing by the public within 20 days of the estimated onset of the countrys
outbreak:1 including (beginning with those favoring masks earliest in the
course of their outbreak): Japan, the Philippines, Macau, Hong Kong,
Sierra Leone, Cambodia, Timor-Leste, Vietnam, Malaysia, Bhutan, Venezuela,
Taiwan, Slovakia, St. Kitts and Nevis, South Korea, Indonesia, Brunei,
Grenada, Mozambique, Uzbekistan, Thailand, and Malawi (Table 2). The
average mortality by May 9 for these 24 early mask-wearing countries was
1.5 per million (SD 2.0). Twenty of the 24 were lower-mortality countries
(p=0.001).

Irrelevant to whether mask wearing was the MAIN FACTOR in
the result they got or whether it was in fact shutting their borders.

An additional 17 countries recommended that the public wear masks within
30 days of the estimated onset of their outbreak: São Tomé and PrÃ*ncipe,
Czechia, Dominica, Bangladesh, Zambia, Chad, Benin, Sudan, El Salvador,
Antigua and Barbuda, Myanmar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Côte d'Ivoire, South
Sudan, Kenya, Saint
Lucia, and Barbados (Table 2). The average mortality by May 9 for this
group was 8.5 per million (SD 12.4). "

https://www.researchgate.net/publica...Ju ne_15_2020

Uesless when you dont also analyse when they shut their borders.