Is anyone doing enough testing? my my my (my my my) woh (woh) how we gonna make it through it. wheres it gonna go. It is dangerous to you as an individual. Or is it going to drag it out so long that the bigger societal, economic impacts linger longer than anyone want?I think every country may not have optimized the use of the time it had available, and for different reasons. All Rights Reserved. my my my. In time, we will have therapeutics, we will have vaccines, we’re in a race against that.And it’s going to take great cooperation and patience from the general population to play their part because at the end of the day it’s going to be the general population that stops this thing and slows it down enough to get it under control. The reasons that there have been problems in some countries is they haven’t had a consensus on the severity of the disease, or they haven’t had a consensus around the transmissibility. By signing up you are agreeing to our 0 0 0. COVID-19
What you want to do now is use that time well to get the testing in place, to get the systems in place, so that you can actually manage the individual level cases that are going to be fundamental to stopping this.And the big question right now is “Are countries going to use this time during these shutdown periods optimally?” Because if you just shut it down your societies, your economies and hope for the best… This is guerrilla warfare against a virus, the virus is just going to sit you out, it’ll just circulate quietly among households and then you’re going to let them all go again and You have to compare it to the few examples you have that have been through this, hence you have to go back to China, look at [South] Korea, look at Singapore. By You have to have that consensus that you’re dealing with something serious and severe and dangerous for your society and individuals. You’ve gotta respect this.Test, test, test, test, test. (C) 1995 Def Jam Recordings These countries in the very early stages, if they were to throw everything at it, probably a solid two months in front of them, if not a bit longer, maybe three months.What we’re seeing is that they’re throwing bits and pieces at it. how did we get ever get this way. The Rock and His Family Tested Positive for the CoronavirusSign up to receive the top stories you need to know now on politics, health and more These countries still have months of this challenge in front of them.When you look to other parts of the world, like Africa, for example, and parts of the Indian subcontinent you can see that it’s just beginning. Otherwise you just cannot generate the public support which is fundamental to accepting the measures, but also the implementing.It’s a combination of factors. And if you go back and look at China right now, they [identified the virus] in early January, they had a full on response, sort of threw everything at it, and it’s middle of March now and they estimate maybe end of March they’ll be coming out of it, so a full three months.When you look around the world in Europe, North America, the Middle East, you can see that we’re really at the period of exponential growth, we’re still seeing the virus going up very, very rapidly, even in hard hit places like Italy, for example. Most people believe that that first scenario where this might disappear completely is very, very unlikely, it just transmits too easily in the human population, so more likely waves or low level disease.A lot of that is going to depend on what we as countries, as societies, do. The doctor, who led a joint WHO mission to China in February to study the effectiveness of In an extensive teleconference interview with TIME from his office in Geneva, Aylward shared what he thinks needs to be done to stop the pandemic, and what the future might hold.The following excerpts from the conversation have been condensed and edited for clarity.We can get little glimpses into the future from places that are recently getting infected, places that aren’t infected, but also the places where it all started.