How come SARS wasn't such a cluster fuck as this?

[raccoon]

Was it not as easily transmitted? Or handled better from the very beginning?

[hlthe2b]

1. Big difference: SARS patients were VERY SYMPTOMATIC when infectious;

COVID-19 patients are often ASYMPTOMATIC when infectious.

[Squinch]

10. Which means that all it would have taken would have been massive testing.

Which, for the richest nation in the world, should not have been such a big deal.

We are STILL only testing only a tiny fraction of what we should be. And we're three months in.

And Nero golfs.

[Baclava]

2. SARS, initial symptoms were more severe and therefore easier to identify and contain

Plus Covid 19 seems to like living in the human body longer, and spreading faster

[pansypoo53219]

3. and obama listened to his experts.

[Nonhlanhla]

7. SARS was in 2003. nt

[catsudon]

11. yes

but of course with SARS you can tell who's sick, and it does kill the host quicker

so if trump was president then, he probably would do anything at all like bush and be hailed as a hero (because he would brag on tv daily)

[Nonhlanhla]

15. Yes, SARS was easier to track and contain

But my response was to the comment that Obama listened to the experts (which is true), but Obama was not president during SARS _ Bush was, who was only slightly more competent than Trump. He was just lucky that the virus that came up during his presidency was so much easier to track.

I do wish Obama could still have been president now. We would have been so much better prepared. Or Hillary.

[pansypoo53219]

16. ok. ebola h1n1?

[Maribelle]

4. Both ...

Vigilant surveillance and patient isolation were rapidly introduced in most of the countries that imported the disease.

And then there was the blind luck factor. SARS was not as highly contagious.

[uponit7771]

5. Handled effectively swine flu infected 1.5 billion according to CDC, 55 million Americans infected

... 12 k dead and the world didn't fall apart like it does under Trump.

The pandemics in the past were handled different, the Obama admin had 1 million people tested in the first month of a person getting infected with swine flu

It took Red Done nearly 2.4 months to do 600 test

[DonaldsRump]

6. Testing was the key

Some have said COVID-19 infections tend to be more asymptomatic than,for example, SARS, and therefore it's harder to detect. Clearly, South Korea did not fall for this and was testing rapidly when the seriousness of the situation became clear.

The US did not, and that is 100% the responsibility of Trump and his mal-administration.

[uponit7771]

9. +1, I can't even watch videos of S Korea any longer .. they're back to business we're

... suffering

[denem]

8. Half the people with SARS required hospitalization.

It was easier to trace back contacts. In addition, it is believed to have been less infectious, coupled with a rapid onset of serious symptoms.

[AlexSFCA]

12. 14% death rate of SARS - dead people cant infect others

[OneBlueDotBama]

13. SARS 1 was a clusterfuck....

When one person returned to Toronto from Hong Kong, no one had the slightest clue as to what they were dealing with. Took them weeks to get their act together, then there was a second wave as the surveillance of contacts was poor.

[gibraltar72]

14. We had a functional proactive government.