I have a question. How in the world can the city of Hong Kong only have 1056 cases and only 4 deaths? I mean compared to Hong Kong, NYC is like great outdoors.
Preparation and execution of a smart and coherent plan. Would be nice if we had a capable government.
It very quickly implemented "xenophobic" measures. from what I just read it did not even shutdown as much as we have.
Hong Kong had issues.. at two points they had to shut down again. Bottom line they closed early and are willing to shut down again or apply mitigation measures quickly at any hint of a COVID-19 increase. Here is the news from late March... Covid-19’s resurgence in Hong Kong holds a lesson: Defeating it demands persistence https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/26...olds-lesson-defeating-it-demands-persistence/ "This week, the government ordered all residents back home, and closed public sports facilities, museums, and libraries that had just reopened. What’s more, the city stopped admitting visitors for two weeks." Here is recent news from May... Two weeks of zero local infections: How Hong Kong contained its second wave of Covid-19 https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/05/asia/hong-kong-coronavirus-recovery-intl-hnk/index.html
Yeah but only 4 deaths?! Come on man, they are packed in there like sardines. They didn't even close their airport. 4 deaths.... Cebu City in the PI has like 30 deaths. (here comes D08 I'm sure) I'm just putting it out there. I have no opinion one way or the other. But Hong Kong, at least it appears on the surface, has done something 99.999999% of the world hasn't.
Read the articles.... they closed all travel in/out multiple times. Keep in mind that in Hong Kong -- when they have a lock-down, they strong-arm enforce it - like in mainland China. They even took the opportunity during the lock-down to round of all the pro-democracy protest leaders at home and haul all of them off to jail. Hong Kong had the advantage that they started lockdowns early -- near the time when case number 1 showed up in Hong Kong. Hong Kong shuts airport as Covid-19 spikes again Cases have more than doubled in the past two weeks, forcing the administration to take stricter measures https://www.ucanews.com/news/hong-kong-shuts-airport-as-covid-19-spikes-again/87541
Maybe we should give Hong Kong a separate membership in both the UN and WHO - along with Taiwan just to mix it up with China a little. Why not. They both have done a good job with covid. What could go wrong there?
Probably the mass use of masks? They had serious issues with Sars and Avian influenza and others previously. They were prepared.
Sweden recorded the most coronavirus deaths in Europe per capita over the past week, according to Oxford data https://www.businessinsider.com/sweden-most-coronavirus-deaths-europe-per-capita-report-2020-5
Now per capita matters. Before it was never brought into play. Remember all the articles about the number of deaths and cases in the US designed to make the US look bad? But when you wanted to talk "per capita" in the US, the doomers disappeared like roaches with the kitchen light turned on. Whatever way you can make a place look bad (as long as that place defied the "experts" of course) you will! While Sweden has recorded far fewer coronavirus cases overall than more-populated countries like Italy and Germany, its per capita coronavirus death toll is among the highest in the world. .... Reuters noted that Sweden's per capita death toll overall from the coronavirus was smaller than that of some countries, like the UK and Italy, that had introduced lockdowns.