The East–West Divide in Response to COVID-19

作     者：Dean T.Jamison Kin Bing Wu Dean T.Jamison;Kin Bing Wu

作者机构：Department of Epidemiology and BiostatisticsUniversity of CaliforniaSan FranciscoCA 98158USA Independent ConsultantAthertonCA 94027USA 

出 版 物：《Engineering》 (工程（英文）)

年 卷 期：2021年第7卷第7期

页      面：936-947页

核心收录：

学科分类：1004[医学-公共卫生与预防医学(可授医学、理学学位)] 0808[工学-电气工程] 1002[医学-临床医学] 0807[工学-动力工程及工程热物理] 100201[医学-内科学(含：心血管病、血液病、呼吸系病、消化系病、内分泌与代谢病、肾病、风湿病、传染病)] 100401[医学-流行病与卫生统计学] 10[医学] 

基　　金：supported through grants from the Trond Mohn Foundation,Norway(BF2019MT02) the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation(Norad),Norway(RAF-18/0009) the Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting 

主　　题：Coronavirus disease 2019 Isolation Non-pharmaceutical interventions Pandemic Vaccination 

摘      要：Coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)deaths per million population in the countries of the West had often exceeded those in the countries of the East by factor of 100 by May *** this paper,we refer to the West as represented by the United States plus the five most populous countries of Western Europe(France,Germany,Italy,Spain,and the United Kingdom),and the East as the 15 countries in East Asia and Oceania that are members of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership,RCEP(Australia,Brunei,Cambodia,China,Indonesia,Japan,the Republic of Korea,Laos,Malaysia,Myanmar,New Zealand,Philippines,Singapore,Thailand,and Vietnam).This paper argues that currently available information points to the factors most responsible for the East–West *** by early January 2020 about an atypical viral pneumonia in Wuhan,China,prompted rapid responses in many jurisdictions in East *** of the virus’s genome on 10 January 2020 provided essential information for making diagnostic tests and launching vaccine ***’s lockdown of Wuhan on 23 January 2020 provided a final,decisive signal of the danger of the new *** late March 2020,China had fully controlled its epidemic,and many other RCEP countries had taken early and decisive measures,including restrictions on travel,that aborted serious *** during the critical month of February 2020 in the United States and most other Western countries allowed the disease to take hold and *** both the East and the West,stringent population-wide non-pharmaceutical interventions were widely implemented at great cost to societies,economies,and school *** these measures,the outcomes could have been even *** countries in the East also implemented tightly focused policies to isolate infectious *** today,most countries in the West allow infectious individuals to mingle with their families,coworkers,and *** of the East–West divide plausibly results from f