BEHAVIOR. IF YOU HAVE BEEN ETCH POSEXPOSED
APPROACH IS TO GO INTO
QUARANTINE.
QUARANTINE. THERE SEEM TO BE EXCEPTIONS.
>> THE QUARANTINE FIASCO, WHICH
I THINK STANDS ALONGSIDE THE
TESTING FIASCO, TO ME FEELS LIKE
A POINT THAT’S WORTHY OF FOCUS,
BECAUSE IT SEEMS MORE FIXABLE.
THE TESTING THING WE SCREWED
THAT UP ROYALLY AS A COUNTRY.
THEY ARE TRYING TO SCALE IT UP.
A LOT OF EFFORT IS GOING INTO
THAT.
THAT. IT WILL HAMPER OUR EFFORTS.
MEANWHILE, WITHOUT TESTING, ALL
WE CAN DO IS LARGE SCALE
MITIGATION EFFORTS LIKE GETTING
RID OF CROWDS, TELLING PEOPLE
NOT TO FLY, THINGS LIKE THAT.
ALSO PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE THEY
HAVE BEEN EXPOSED SHOULD
QUARANTINE.
QUARANTINE. WOULD CLEAR FEDERAL STANDARDS
AND HOW AND UNDER WHAT
CIRCUMSTANCES HELP?
CIRCUMSTANCES HELP? >> THAT’S NOT THE RIGHT
APPROACH.
APPROACH. YOU DON’T WANT INFECTED PEOPLE
OR SUSPECTED INFECTED PEOPLE
WITH THEIR FAMILIES.
THEY WILL PASS IT ON.
CHINA HAS HAD ENORMOUS SUCCESS
IN BEATING DOWN ITS EPIDEMIC.
WE DON’T KNOW WHAT’S GOING TO
HAPPEN WHEN CHINA TRIES TO
REOPEN THE ECONOMY AND LET
PEOPLE GO BACK TO FACTORIES AND
BACK TO SUBWAYS AND BACK TO
OFFICES AND RESTAURANT.
WE DON’T KNOW WHAT’S GOING TO
HAPPEN.
HAPPEN. THEY WILL DO IT IN A SLOW WAY.
THEY HAVE BEEN IN LOCKDOWN ALL
THIS TIME.
THIS TIME. WE SEE THE DRONE SHOTS FROM THE
CITIES.
CITIES. LOCKDOWN LOOKS TERRIBLE.
THAT’S NOT THE POINT.
THEY HAD TO DO THAT IN ORDER TO
INTRODUCE MEASURES THEY WERE
GOING TO TAKE THAT WOULD FIGHT
THE EPIDEMIC.
THE EPIDEMIC. THAT IS TESTING, TEST,ING,
TESTING.
TESTING. FIND THE VIRUS.
IF YOU ARE ABLE TO GET OUT OF
THE HOUSE, IF YOU GO INTO ANY
BUILDING, TEMPERATURE IS TAKEN.
I CAME INTO THIS BUILDING, THEY
ASKED ME SILLY QUESTIONS I COULD
HAVE LIED ABOUT.
>> WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU SHOW A
FEVER?
FEVER? >> THEN YOU ARE SENT TO A FEVER
CLINIC.
CLINIC. YOUR DOCTOR’S OFFICE IS
DANGEROUS.
DANGEROUS. ONE TEST WILL MAKE YOU COUGH OR
GAG.
GAG. THEN YOU HAVE INFECTED THE
DOCTOR.
DOCTOR. THE DOCTOR’S OFFICE IS OUT.
POSSIBLY INFECTED EVERYBODY IN
THE WAITING ROOM.
THEY ARE SENT TO FEVER CLINICS
WHICH THE CHINESE HAVE HAD SINCE
THEY BATTLED SARS.
IT’S AN ENTRANCE TO THE
HOSPITAL.
HOSPITAL. IT’S SEPARATE FROM THE MAIN
ENTRANCE.
ENTRANCE. THEY ARE MET BY PEOPLE IN
PROTECTIVE GEAR.
PROTECTIVE GEAR. THE TEMPERATURE IS TAKEN.
THEY ARE ASKED WHAT THEIR
SYMPTOMS ARE, WHETHER THEY HAVE
BEEN EXPOSED, HOW THEY HAVE BEEN
EXPOSED.
EXPOSED. THEY GET A WHITE BLOOD CELL
COUNT WHICH TAKES HALF AN HOUR.
IT DOESN’T TELL YOU WHAT THE
BACTERIA IS BUT IT TELLS YOU
WHETHER YOU LIKELY HAVE THAT.
THEY GET A FLU TEST TO SEE IF
THEY HAVE FLU.
MAYBE YOU CAN BE EXCLUDED AND GO
HOME.
HOME. IF YOU DON’T HAVE EITHER ONE OF
THOSE, YOU ARE GIVEN A CT SCAN.
CT SCANS IN THIS COUNTRY TAKE
HALF AN HOUR TO AN HOUR.
THEY ARE EXPENSIVE.
THERE THEY HAVE PORTABLE CT
SCANNERS.
SCANNERS. THEY PUSHED PEOPLE THROUGH THOSE
AT THE RATE OF 200 A DAY.
A COUPLE SLICES OF THE LUNGS TO
SEE IF THERE ARE THOSE OPACITIES
THAT ARE A GOOD INDICATION OF
THIS.
THIS. IF YOU COME UP POSITIVE FOR
THAT, THEN YOU ARE GOING TO GET
A PCR TEST, THE TEST WE’RE
TALKING ABOUT HERE.
IT’S A NASAL SWAB.
PUSH A Q-TIP UP YOUR NOSE.
THEY DO THAT ON SITE.
IT’S DOWN TO FOUR HOURS.
>> YOU WAIT FOR IT TO COME BACK?
>> YOU SIT AND WAIT.
YOU ARE TOLD, SIT A COUPLE YARDS
APART FROM EVERYBODY ELSE.
PEOPLE SITTING THERE IT WAS
DESCRIBED WITH PINK ENVELOPES
WITH CT SCANS AND THEY ARE
AFRAID OF EACH OTHER.
THEY MIGHT BE NEXT TO SOMEBODY
WHO HAS VIRUS.
ONCE THE RESULTS COME BACK -- IF
THEY CAN’T GET THE RESULTS BACK
THAT DAY, THEY GO TO A
QUARANTINE HOTEL AND WAIT.
>> APART FROM THEIR FAMILY?
>> APART FROM THEIR FAMILY.
THAT’S THE KEY ELEMENT.
THERE’S NO HOME ISOLATION.
THERE’S NO HOME QUARANTINE.
75% TO 80% OF THE TRANSMISSION
IN CHINA WAS IN FAMILY CLUSTERS.
WHAT WOULD MAKE THE NEWS WAS
IT’S IN THE PRISON, IT’S IN
PARLIAMENT -- BUT NOT THERE.
YOU WOULD HEAR THESE -- 75% TO
80% WAS INSIDE THE FAMILY.
THEY KNEW THEY HAD TO STOP THAT.
PEOPLE WERE LITERALLY QUICKLY
TAKEN AWAY FROM FAMILIES TO
THESE GYMNASIUMS OR STADIUMS
WHERE THEY WERE -- THEY WERE NOT
CONCENTRATION CAMPS.
CONCENTRATION CAMPS. THEY ARE BEDS THERE.
THERE WERE NURSES IN PROTECTIVE
GEAR TO WATCH OUT FOR PEOPLE.
THEY HAD DANCE CLASSES.
BECAUSE WHEN YOU HAVE LOTS OF
LITTLE OLD LADIES SITTING THERE
TOGETHER WAITING TO SEE IF THEY
ARE OKAY, IF YOU GET THEM UP
DANCING, IT HELPS CLEAR THEIR
LUNGS.
LUNGS. IT’S NOT A BAD POLICY.
WE LAUGH AT THE PICTURES WHEN
YOU SEE PEOPLE DANCING IN WHAT
LOOKS LIKE MOON SUITS.
BUT THAT WAS SOMETHING MEDICALLY
SMART GOING ON.
IF PEOPLE NEED TO BE
HOSPITALIZED, THE PEOPLE WHO
DON’T NEED TO BE HOSPITALIZED
ARE IN THESE 80% OF MILD CASES,
I’M SORRY I USED THAT EXPRESS
WHEN I WROTE THE FIRST ARTICLE.
MILD WHEN YOU LOOK CAREFULLY AT
THE STUDY IS EVERYTHING FROM
ALMOST NO SYMPTOMS TO PNEUMONIA
BUT DOESN’T NEED OXYGEN, DOESN’T
NEED HOSPITALIZATION.
NEED HOSPITALIZATION. I HAVE HAD PNEUMONIA.
THAT WAS NOT LIKE HAVING A
MIELTDMILD
MIELTDMILD COLD.
COLD. I HAD IT TWO WEEKS DIFFERENT
FROM WHEN HILLARY CLINTON HAD
IT.
IT. I WAS STANDING ON THIRD BASE AND
THOUGHT, I’M GOING TO COLLAPSE
HERE.
HERE. WENT TO THE DOCTOR THE NEXT DAY.
THOSE ARE THE CASES.
THEY ARE ISOLATED AWAY.
PEOPLE SORT OF MOVE THROUGH THE
SYSTEM.
SYSTEM. SUSPECT CASES MILD TO MODERATE
CASES AND HOSPITALIZED AND
SEVERE AND CRITICAL CASES.
THE CRUCIAL THING ABOUT THAT
SYSTEM IS BREAK THE CHAINS OF
TRANSMISSION AND ALSO DO WHAT
YOU CAN TO KEEP THE HOSPITALS
FROM GETTING OVERWHELMED.
WHEN THE HOSPITALS GET
OVERWOMENLED, YOU EDOVERWEM LHEL
OVERWHELMED, YOU SAY SHE LIVES
AND LIVES, HE DIES.
GRANDMOTHER, GOOD-BYE.
GRANDMOTHER, GOOD-BYE. THOSE ARE THE CHOICES THEY ARE
MAKING IN NORTHERN ITALY.
THEY WILL MAKE THEM ALL OVER
ITALY PRETTY SOON.
WE WILL, TOO.
>> DONALD McNEIL, SCIENCE AND
HEALTH REPORTER FOR "THE NEW
YORK TIMES."
YORK TIMES." PEOPLE ARE GOING TO CLIP THIS
AND SEND IT TO THEIR LOCAL
HEALTH DEPARTMENT BECAUSE OF THE
DISTANCE BETWEEN WHAT YOU ARE