Saturday, June 20, 2020

Hitoshi Oshitani, a Japanese virologist: Beijing’s new coronavirus outbreak carries an urgent message for the world - btbirkett@gmail.com - Gmail

Today's WorldView: Beijing’s new coronavirus outbreak carries an urgent message for the world - 

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 Hitoshi Oshitani, a Japanese virologist and government adviser, said in a recent interview, adding that he doubted a vaccine would be effective and that a strategy of waiting for herd immunity was “nonsense.”
Any new outbreak — especially a new outbreak where the chain of transmission cannot be ascertained — is particularly worrying in China, a high-tech, authoritarian state that had staked so much on fighting back the first wave of infections in spring.
...Tang, the patient announced last week, had only mild symptoms but biked to a testing center anyway. He apparently understood that we are not back to normal yet.

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