Swift and strict containment measures in California appear to have succeeded in reducing hospital overcrowding and mass deaths from coronavirus, ...
California, one of the first states struck by the deadly disease, has been under lockdown for nearly four weeks. LOS ANGELES: Swift and strict containment measures in California appear to have succeeded in reducing hospital overcrowding and mass deaths from coronavirus, according to health experts in the country's most populous state.
Millions of people in the San Francisco area - the part of the state most affected by coronavirus at the time - had already been placed on lockdown three days earlier, under a coordinated decision by six counties. New York's sheer size, dense population and extreme urbanization partly account for its unparalleled toll. But for Rimoin the rapid reaction of California officials was decisive.
In such a situation,"then by doing the shelter in place order a week earlier, you're cutting down on two doublings of the epidemic," said Erin Mordecai, an infectious disease biologist at Stanford University in California."One thing the models show is that it's far more important to impose the intervention early, rather than exactly how long you maintain or exactly how intense the intervention is," she told AFP.
In Santa Clara county, home to the tech giants of Silicon Valley, containment would need to remain in place another five months for the epidemic to totally disappear, she said.
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