That coronavirus has spread means it slipped past China’s efforts to contain it—which included some of the most extreme quarantines in modern history. That comes as no surprise to public health experts.
Coronavirus is coming. Maybe not for you, but certainly for the U.S. The country’s first case of unexplained origin has been identified in California, andThat it has arrived also means that the virus slipped past China’s efforts to contain it — which included some of. And that comes as no surprise to public health experts.
“There are reasons to be skeptical of the efficacy of quarantine, for respiratory diseases [like coronavirus] in particular,” said Wendy Parmet, director of the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University Law School. Quarantine is one of the oldest defenses societies have had against disease, but it’s not a sure-fire way to stop a disease from spreading and shouldn’t be any government’s knee-jerk response.
“I think part of the problem is that we don’t really make a distinction between quarantine and isolation,” said Lauren Sauer, a professor of emergency medicine and the director of operations with the Johns Hopkins Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response. Isolation — separating sick people from healthy ones — is unequivocally a good idea, she and Parmet both said. Research has shown that
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