Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t Dr. Willie Soon; Augusta Wilson of the Climate Science Legal Defence Fund has accused President Trump of ignoring the Covid outbreak. But Wilson has ignored a few key facts.
Climate change and COVID-19: The denial playbook is the same
by Augusta Wilson, Earth Institute at Columbia University
JULY 31, 2020The phrase “every disaster movie begins with a scientist being ignored” resonates more than ever as two disasters unfold: the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change. One is occurring with horrifying rapidity and one more slowly; both would be far less damaging if scientific advice were heeded earlier.
In the United States, the Trump administration has responded to the COVID-19 crisis using tactics it honed in the climate arena: ignoring or burying relevant scientific information, pushing misinformation, and silencing scientists who warn us of the dangers. This pervasive “see no evil, hear no evil” approach has handicapped the U.S.’s ability to respond to both of these unfolding crises.
From the start of the pandemic, scientists who spoke out about the increasing threat from COVID-19 were ignored and pushed out. The same thing has happened to climate scientists since the early days of the Trump administration. The mentality that climate change is a taboo subject has taken root so firmly that it filtered down from top-level political officials and is now enforced by lower-level career employees in scientific agencies.
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Read more: https://phys.org/news/2020-07-climate-covid-denial-playbook.html
WUWT, one of the world’s leading climate skeptic websites, was an early mover when it came to telling people about the Covid-19 outbreak. We published a story in January, China Corona Virus Horror: Hospital Corridor of the Dead and Dying. Not exactly evidence of climate skeptics ignoring the Covid-19 outbreak.
What about President Trump? President Trump closed the border to China at the start of February, against the advice of scientific experts at the WHO. President Trump took significant political heat for closing the border.
On 27th January Democrat Presumptive President Candidate Joe Biden wrote the following;
… Pandemic diseases are a prime example of why international cooperation is a requirement of leadership in 2020. Diseases do not stop at borders. They cannot be thwarted by building a wall. We cannot keep ourselves safe without helping to keep others safe as well and without enlisting the help of other nations in return. And here’s the truth — the United States must step forward to lead these efforts, because no other nation has the resources, the reach or the relationships to marshal an effective international response. …
Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/01/27/coronavirus-donald-trump-made-us-less-prepared-joe-biden-column/4581710002/
On 2nd February Biden tweeted;
Biden later switched to supporting Coronavirus travel bans, and criticised Trump for not moving fast enough.
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You got to go faster than slower. And we started off awfully slow.
He indicated that I complimented him on — on dealing with China. Well, you know, 45 nations had already moved to keep — block China’s personnel from being able to come to the United States before the president moved.
So, it’s just — it’s about pace. It’s about — it’s about the urgency. And I don’t think there’s been enough of it, urgency.
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Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/week-transcript-20-joe-biden-secretary-mark-esper/story?id=69981088
Even Politifact didn’t wholeheartedly back Biden’s claim about the pace of President Trump’s response.
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Our ruling
Biden claimed that “45 nations had already moved” to enforce travel restrictions with China “before the president moved.”
The extent of travel restrictions vary — from the suspension of visa programs to entry denial. According to one tracker of travel restrictions, Biden’s 45 figure checks out. Other research shows that the number is around 36.
Where Biden misleads is on the relative speed of the U.S. compared with others. The U.S. travel restriction came shortly after the WHO declared a public health emergency and around the same time as other nations, experts said.
Biden’s statement that Trump’s travel restriction was slower than 45 other countries is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. We rate it Half True.
Read more: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/apr/13/joe-biden/joe-bidens-claim-about-donald-trumps-slow-travel-r/
Are there differences of opinion about the severity of Covid-19, and how Covid should be addressed? Absolutely. Have mistakes been made? I’m sure historians with the benefit of hindsight will come up with all sorts of theories of what could have been done differently.
My point is Augusta Wilson’s assertion that President Trump ignored the threat of Coronavirus is not supported by the evidence. In my opinion, as an attorney Wilson should have performed a little more due diligence before making such a claim.
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Fairly typical progressive playbook – define the opponent’s position for them – doesn’t have to be true.
How many trolls do that here, every day?
Recent data from Sweden disagrees. And I wouldn’t believe a word out of China about anything.
“every disaster movie begins with a scientist being ignored”
That’s the movies, sweetie – unless you believe Godzilla is real.
Gosh, you’ll be telling us Superman isn’t real next…
I see that the Climate Alarmist Liar’s playbook is being used by the anti-Trumpers to bash Trump about his response to Cov-19. How convenient.
As always, the projection is strong in these sychophants, so correction takes only one word:
Phys.org: “Climate change and COVID-19: The
denialscaremongering playbook is the same”You know, I don’t think it’s quite true that “every disaster movie begins with a scientist being ignored.”
I seem to remember at least some of these movies starting with one scientist going against the established view, and all the other scientists writing him off and perhaps even ridiculing him because (as we all know) science is about orthodoxy and conformity, not challenging the consensus.
Disaster movies almost always use Feynman’s the ignorance of the experts’ consensus that turns out to be horribly wrong against one lone dissenting voice that turns out to be prophetic.
Climate change alarmism fits that model exactly. The biggest disaster in both the Climate Scam and the COVID lockdown will certainly turn out to be the economic disaster imparted on society by listening to the experts. Ms Wison is too blinded by her partisan ignorance to understand that simple reality.
Disaster movies are works of fiction, the same as most of the scientific expert opinion on CV-19.
The experts in positions of authority were 99% wrong. The whole field of epidemiology works with very poor or useless data. There are at least three lines of expert opinion, none are proven.
The CDC and WHO have a track record of total failure. They have given the world an epidemic of diabetes, obesity, heart disease and cancer through their bad advice.
It’s always sad when a good looking woman proves herself ignorant or an adept liar! Of course, she could be crazy but that would put her in the category of my ex-wives! A scary thought!
I want to thank icisil for pointing out the Newsweek article; something that everyone should cite for their hysterical or hyper-partisan family and friends. Also a “Thank you,” is deserved for whoever on WUWT pointed out the “jbhandleyblog.com!” Like Alex Berenson, Handley is a welcome voice of reason in these times of panic and political posturing that have tragically increased the death toll of the Chi-Com 19 Virus unnecessarily! In the Age of Propaganda it appears that more than Truth is being murdered!
Climate change is like the Wuhan virus only in the way both are being mishandled and lied about! The virus was ignored, then over-hyped and now it is being incorrectly treated with intubations and a ban on the HCQ/zinc/azithromycin regimen that a growing number of studies show to be effective. Climate change may not be a problem at all, but if it is the best possible course to follow would be to have the US become a major developer and builder of modern nuclear power plants; standardized to make control and safety easier!
No matter how good they look, you can be fairly certain there is some guy somewhere that is sick and tired of putting up with their s&*t.
Corollary: the better looking they are, the greater the certainty.
“The virus … is being incorrectly treated with intubations”
There is a very interesting controversy currently developing between clinicians and, what I’ll call, protocolists about the need for mechanical ventilation. The former are skilled at successfully adapting treatments to patients’ individual pathophysiologies, but the latter seem unable to think or treat beyond established protocols. Both are very skilled, but one is able to think outside of the box and the other is not. One seems to put each patient’s well being first at all costs; the other seems to embrace a cookie cutter approach to all patients with a concomitant rationalization of collateral damage.
More than a few doctors admit in their own careful way that the rush to intubate covid patients has been a tragedy. Here’s a peek into that world. The followup comments reveal the controversy:
https://twitter.com/PulmCrit/status/1289643491677442049
My favorite comment from the thread. To paraphrase, if I understand correctly: outliers to traditional ARDS have always existed, and were treated as ARDS with bad results, but went unnoticed because of their infrequency. Now they are noticed because covid, contrary to prior clinical practice, is disproportionately treated with mechanical ventilation.
https://twitter.com/PatientStormDoc/status/1289729374166671361
Augusta Wilson is a Staff Attorney at Climate Science Legal Defence Fund. In the US legal system the ultimate goal is to win a lawsuit, not to find the truth. For an illustration, if police forget to read “Miranda rights” to a detainee, they effectively set him free. That’s why courts increasingly decide scientific matters, like Does Roundup cause cancer?
Only if you smoke it.
If you guzzle it, maybe. Glyphosate is not retained, thereby does not exhibit a cumulative effect in the human body. In large quantities, it may abort productive biota in the digestive system, and, perhaps, cause an effect similar to acid reflux, which damages the lining of the stomach and esophagus. Were there any confirmed cases other than the “gardener” who ingested the stuff in large volume?
Glyphosate is a glycine analog, so there is concern (or possibly evidence, I don’t know) that it is incorporated into cellular structure in the place of glycine and thereby disrupts cellular process dependent upon glycine.
Well, there was no evidence, quite the contrary, and the substance is not multiplicative. This reminds me of hexavalent chromium toxicity characterized in isolation, then inferred but underperformed in the wild as a carcinogenic substance.
GLYPHOSATE
If President Trump were to be observed walking on water the Phys.org would report he was violating the laws of physics. It’s sad when agenda “trumps” science.
And the MSM would screech that he doesn’t know how to swim.
I love not having to type the punchline. Thanks.
A strawclown argument, at best. No one denies climate cooling… warming… change. No one denies the virus from Wuhan. People do disagree about the causes, effects, and severity of the first. People do disagree about the epidemiology, treatment, and conflation of diagnoses of the second. We could have shut down Planned Parent (e.g. New York City, Seattle). We could have prescribed a disinfectant cocktail to limit cellular infection, to reduce viral viability, and mitigate disease progression in a Planned Pathogen protocol. We could have limited transnational spread, but there were special and peculiar interests that insisted it was xenophobic. Case-in-point: the defense of foreign students for the sake of foreign tuition, immigration reform for corporate and political leverage. We didn’t and the social contagion (e.g. Some, Select Black Lives Matter) spread put people at additional risk.
Let me guess, she self-identifies as “progressive”, is a follower of the Pro-Choice quasi-religion (e.g. its relativistic cousin “ethics”), and is a militant supporter of denying life that is deemed unworthy of life, a social inconvenience (e.g. “burden”), or that contains colorful, profitable parts.
When does the movie version come out with fictional, artistic license?
New claim: COVID-19 causes ‘agenda reach’ to extrapolate to endless combinations. If you disagree you are cast into the denier bucket.
No, don’t be smoking your Roundup! Smoke your Mary Jane! Proven therapy for CoViD-19, that’s why legalizing it MUST be in the next relief legislation, per Nancy Pelosi and her colleagues.
So ignore the foolish blathering about hydroxychloroquine from the crazy Nigerian doctor and Bad Orange Man – get over to your nearest head shop for the REAL cure!
Overhyped and the most effective cure is not used.
Yup, similar.
Note: Naomi Oreskes is a Board Member of The Climate Science Legal Defense Fund.
The Climate Science Legal Defense Fund “came together in response to increasing legal attacks on climate scientists and the immediate need to help defray the legal costs of an ideologically motivated lawsuit against the University of Virginia and atmospheric scientist Dr. Michael Mann.” They forgot to mention that it was Mann who started suing people.
“The initial effort raised over $100,000 to pay for Mann’s legal bills. Following years of litigation, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled in Mann’s favor in spring 2014.” They forgot to mention that the process is the punishment: for example in British Columbia, they had no intention of ever bringing to court, preferring merely to slow-bleed you into settling – as, to their great shame, the Frontier Centre for Public Policy did.
They also forgot to mention that the Supreme Court of British Columbia dismissed Mann’s defamation lawsuit against Canadian climatologist, Dr Tim Ball. Full legal costs were awarded to Dr Ball, the defendant in the case. The Canadian court issued it’s final ruling in favor of the Dismissal motion that was filed in May 2019 by Dr Tim Ball’s libel lawyers. Mann astonished legal experts by refusing to comply with the court direction to hand over all his disputed graph’s data. Mann’s “hockey stick” graph has been relied upon by the UN’s IPCC and western governments as crucial evidence supporting the science of man-made global warming.
Note: Mann’s suit against Mark Steyn is now in its ninth year!
Mann is still hiding in Australia and can’t be deposed until he sets foot in the US.
“Note: Mann’s suit against Mark Steyn is now in its ninth year!”
It’s hard to believe this lawsuit has been delayed that long. It’s a travesty of justice.
Not every monster movie “begins by ignoring a scientist.” My favorite when I was a kid, “Them”, is all about following the recommendations of a scientist whose predictions turn out to be correct. My biggest problem with most monster movies is that the “scientists” make up explanations out of whole cloth (“radiation”, “chemicals” in the water, “DNA experiments”, prove it, please) with no supporting evidence. That’s more like today’s non-science.
“every disaster movie” proceeds and ends with an overblown exaggeration of the real world
Didn’t you get the memo?
Anything bad = Trump
Anything good = his opponents.
Remember that in future…
“In the United States, the Trump administration has responded to the COVID-19 crisis using tactics it honed in the climate arena: ignoring or burying relevant scientific information, pushing misinformation, and silencing scientists who warn us of the dangers.”
I never cease to be amazed at the inverted accusations from these people. They deploy these underhanded tactics to squelch skeptic input and real science then accuse us of these same tactics and probably believe they are right. If she is so wrong on this first accusation I can’t expect much truth or clarity in the rest of her article. I did read it and can’t say my expectations were wrong.
Who is denying climate change? 10,000 years before present, Svalbard Norway experienced average temperatures ~7C (12.6F) higher than they are experiencing today. This was during the ‘Holocene Climate Optimum’, the warmest point in the current Holocene interstadial. (Data from a Dec 2019 paper published in Geophysical Research Letters https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019GL084384) The Holocene interstadial started approximately 13,000 years ago, melted the mile thick glaciers that spanned the northern portions of North America, Europe, and Asia, and is continuing today. Did ‘man made’ global warming cause these mile thick, continent spanning glaciers to melt 10,000 years ago? Did thoughtless, selfish Norseman ‘pollution’ 10,000 years ago cause the global warming and melting? Nope. It was natural climate change then… and it’s natural climate change now. Climate changes, naturally. The Holocene interstadial global warming has been very good for life on the whole planet, when compared to the impoverished, life crushing, bitter cold environment of the preceding full blown Ice age. Too bad reality and historical data doesn’t support the nit wit fear mongering from fraudulent ‘climate change’ alarmists.
Since the Holocene Climate Optimum of 10,000 years ago, the planetary temperatures have ratcheted down and up in uneven fits, with the overall trend being slow cooling. Will the cooling trend continue over the next 1000 years and take us back into another really bad period of bitter cold global glaciation? Or is the trend shifting to a bit of beneficial natural warming over the next 1000 years? Only time will tell.
Hydroxychloroquine. That’s the post.
Covid and CAGW are not the same at all. Analogues are used to keep the talk/discussion at the fluff stage.
Fluff discussion goes nowhere. And we have a real problem with covid.
There is no cure for CAGW that will work at this time.
It appears there is a simple scientific way to reduce the covid death rate by more than a factor of five using a chemical that our body produces and measurements have shown the US population is deficient in that chemical.
Why is the Florida death rate for Covid five times, less than 1.47%, five times less to the New York covied death rate?
Vit. D deficiency theory …
In this study it was found based on blood measurements of active Vit. D, in every covid positive patient in the study, that Vitamin D deficiency,…
… can be used to predict the patient’s covid disease outcome, regardless of sex or age.
https://emerginnova.com/patterns-of-covid19-mortality-and-vitamin-d-an-indonesian-study/
Patterns of COVID-19 Mortality and Vitamin D: An Indonesian Study
Vitamin D Insufficient Patients were and are 12.55 times, more likely to die or have serious organ damage, blood serum 25(OH)D level from 21 to 29 ng/ml, as compared to those people how have normal Vit. D levels in their bloodstream.
Vitamin D Deficient Patients were and are 19.12 times, more likely to die or have serious organ damage, Vitamin D blood serum level less than 20 ng/ml, as compared to those people how have normal Vit. D levels in their bloodstream.
Vitamin D ‘normal’ for this study is a blood serum level of Vit D active, 25(0H)D above 30 ng/ml.
Is the US population, based on general population Vit. D blood stream measurements, def. in Vit. D? Yes
And all of the developed countries based on covid death rate population, except for China where the covid virus does not seem to spread. (China question mark. Supplements in food have been suggested to correct def.)
There are Vit. D statistics available for US, Canada, and Australia.
Most Vit. D def. cohort in every pop. are those people who are obese, who live in nursing homes, who are diabetic, and so on.
Muslim women are severely def. in traditional Muslim countries. Highest rate of type 2 diabetes in the developed world, is in Saudi. Vitamin D def. increases incidence of type 2 diabetes by more than 50%.
Florida is the sunshine state and the people in that state, the general population, including old retirees, have higher levels of actived Vitamin D in their blood stream that those who live in New York state.
New York the city is often cloudy and rainy ….
And a large number of people of who live in New York state, live in New York the city where it is very difficult for white people and impossible for black people to get their daily UVB, if they do not take Vit. D suppls., in the summer and not possible in the winter.
From the link.
“FL and NY have an identical number of per capita coronavirus infections but FL has 5X less per capita deaths,” Paul pointed out.
Overall, the state has reported 491,884 total cases, bringing the mortality rate to 1.47 percent. There have been 27,366 recorded hospitalizations statewide, although hospital capacity is increasing statewide, jumping from 21 percent nearly two weeks ago to over 25 percent on Monday.”
82% of the US black population, 69% of the US Hispanic, and 42% of the US general population is Vitamin D deficient.
Prevalence and correlates of vitamin D deficiency in US adults.
https://tahomaclinic.com/Private/Articles4/WellMan/Forrest%202011%20-%20Prevalence%20and%20correlates%20of%20vitamin%20D%20deficiency%20in%20US%20adults.pdf
4000 UI/day of Vitamin D supplements is required to raise the serum 25(OH)D of the entire population above 30 ng/ml.
I have found links to every peer reviewed study referenced in this chart that shows the Vit. D levels vs disease incidence from measurement of Vit. D in the bloodstream and supplement use.
https://www.grassrootshealth.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/disease-incidence-prev-chart-051317.pdf
There has not been a single adverse problem found in the Vit. D research at ‘high’ levels. The high Vitamin D research to determine Vit. D body optimum, did not reach 10,000 UI/day. The researchers who led the Vit. high research have written a paper recommending 5000 UI/day for the entire US population.
The first record of a medical issue (only know issue is mild calc. and calcification) for known Vit. D daily supplements use, is at 20,000 UI/day. Based on standard analysis, the upper tolerable theoretical dosage should be 15,000 UI/day, as that is one tenth of the maximum single dosage, 150,000 UI once.
The Vitamin D issue is where I consider our medical “experts” in Canada and elsewhere grossly incompetent. I sent emails to my gov members about this and from the minister’s office I received an ignorant reply that too much Vitamin D can be bad. How many people have died from a Vitamin D overdose?
Of course the other factor which show ignorance and absolute politics id the HCQ banning.
The University of Manitoba took part in an incompetent “study” of HCQ with some other groups. From what I understood it was not in combination with zinc etc. Also it appears that they did not test volunteers for covid. They asked questions to find 2 symptoms.
Disaster.
In France, the most inane “journalist”/commentator re: medical issues is without any doubt Patrick Cohen.
Yet we say many experts, notably “doctor” Karine “Gilead/AbbVie” Lacombe(*) and “epidemiologist” Catherine Hill (**) happily chatting on TV (France 5, in “C à vous”) with Cohen. I get that you can give interviewes with everybody, but being happy and having apparent intellectual proximity with a complete crook, who went as far as trying to discredit Didier Raoult by pointing the “contradiction” between the claim that HCQ was safe and the fact Raoult once said in English that people can overdose on it (and commit suicide), claiming Raoult never said so in French (he said so quite often, as anyone following Raoult knows well).
It’s impossible to even consider Cohen’s mind without getting vertigo from the abyssal emptiness of it. That a pretend “scientist” could be cosy with him when discussing scientific matters is unthinkable.
This crisis revealed the abject mediocrity of most talking heads in the biological and medical field.
(*) who notably said “corona is not a zoonosis”
(**) epidemiology is the only purely scientific part of bio-medicine; but here we have really an epidemics-ologist: Hill actually does modeling of the dynamics of epidemics, a completely BS “field”, closer to Nintendo than to medicine or epidemiology.
“The first record of a medical issue (only know issue is mild calc. and calcification) for known Vit. D daily supplements use, is at 20,000 UI/day.”
That’s nice to know.
I’m currently taking 4000 IU a day.
The thing to watch is US excess deaths. Posted in various forms by CDC, for US and by state. It is approaching normal for the US less than 10% excess, down from over 30% in April with lockdown. Pandemic likely over by end of August at 0 excess deaths. I agree with the stanford epidemiologist who said we are 80% there now.
And the two papers By Nic LewiS and another author he separately commented on at Climate Etc. show that when heterogeneity replaces homogeneity assumption, herd immunity is achieved at between 25-30%, not 65-70%. Sweden is already showing like likely correct.
Interesting Programme on channel4 UK
Race Against the Virus: The Hunt for a Vaccine
Channel 4, 9.00pm
scientists knew the problem late December
Difference between covid and sars is most importantly the period of no symptoms but able to pass on the virus. IE undetectable infection – temperature/cough/smell do not show up but virus has a field day !
“scientists knew the problem late December”
But not the World Health Organisation. ???
https://www.who.int/news-room/articles-detail/updated-who-recommendations-for-international-traffic-in-relation-to-covid-19-outbreak
29th Feb.. “WHO continues to advise against the application of travel or trade restrictions to countries experiencing COVID-19 outbreaks.”
G-half-runt.. your cognitive dissonance is hilarious. !
By the time travel from Wuhan was restricted by the USA it was too late – The virus was in USA, The virus was in other unrestricted countries. The WHO state that travel restrictions are only appropriate to delay the initial transfer of viruses – 11th February
It was too late!
https://www.who.int/news-room/articles-detail/updated-who-recommendations-for-international-traffic-in-relation-to-covid-19-outbreak
On 30 January 2020, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, following the advice of the Emergency Committee convened under the International Health Regulations (2005), declared the current outbreak of COVID-19 a public health emergency of international concern and issued Temporary Recommendations. The Committee asked the Director-General to provide further advice on these matters and, if necessary, to make new case-by-case recommendations, in view of this rapidly evolving situation.
Recommendations for international traffic
WHO continues to advise against the application of travel or trade restrictions to countries experiencing COVID-19 outbreaks.
In general, evidence shows that restricting the movement of people and goods during public health emergencies is ineffective in most situations and may divert resources from other interventions. Furthermore, restrictions may interrupt needed aid and technical support, may disrupt businesses, and may have negative social and economic effects on the affected countries. However, in certain circumstances, measures that restrict the movement of people may prove temporarily useful, such as in settings with few international connections and limited response capacities.
Travel measures that significantly interfere with international traffic may only be justified at the beginning of an outbreak, as they may allow countries to gain time, even if only a few days, to rapidly implement effective preparedness measures. Such restrictions must be based on a careful risk assessment, be proportionate to the public health risk, be short in duration, and be reconsidered regularly as the situation evolves.
Travel bans to affected areas or denial of entry to passengers coming from affected areas are usually not effective in preventing the importation of cases but may have a significant economic and social impact. Since WHO declaration of a public health emergency of international concern in relation to COVID-19, and as of 27 February, 38 countries have reported to WHO additional health measures that significantly interfere with international traffic in relation to travel to and from China or other countries, ranging from denial of entry of passengers, visa restrictions or quarantine for returning travellers. Several countries that denied entry of travellers or who have suspended the flights to and from China or other affected countries, are now reporting cases of COVID-19.
https://www.who.int/news-room/articles-detail/key-considerations-for-repatriation-and-quarantine-of-travellers-in-relation-to-the-outbreak-of-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov/
11 February 2020 COVID-19 Travel Advice
On 30th January 2020, the WHO Director General has declared the outbreak of novel coronavirus 2019- nCoV as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), based on the advice of the Emergency Committee under the International Health Regulations (2005).1 Following that determination, WHO did not recommend any travel or trade restrictions, based on the current information available.
Evidence on travel measures that significantly interfere with international traffic for more than 24 hours shows that such measures may have a public health rationale at the beginning of the containment phase of an outbreak, as they may allow affected countries to implement sustained response measures, and non-affected countries to gain time to initiate and implement effective preparedness measures. Such restrictions, however, need to be short in duration, proportionate to the public health risks, and be reconsidered regularly as the situation evolves.
Countries should be prepared for containment, including active surveillance, early detection, isolation and case management, contact tracing and prevention of onward spread of 2019-nCoV infection, and to share full data with WHO. In accordance with their obligations under the Article 43 of the International Health Regulations (2005), States Parties must inform WHO about additional health measures that significantly interfere with international traffic.
For countries that have decided to repatriate their nationals from Wuhan City, Hubei province, the following key considerations need to be made, in order to ensure the health and wellbeing of those involved in the repatriation. In addition, measures aimed at bolstering national preparedness capacities to prevent the further spread or importation of 2019-nCoV before, during, and after repatriation need to be considered.
“Measures to be adopted before embarkation…
Onboard the Aircraft…
Upon arrival at the Point of Entry…
Quarantine…
Personnel…”
all very restrictive as at 11th February