Response to the COVID-19 Epidemic: The Chinese Experience and Implications for Other Countries

Liu, Wei; Xiao, Yao; Tchounwou, Paul B.

doi:10.3390/ijerph17072304

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“…Across China, these lockdowns were replicated with specific measures controlling moving within provinces or cities and restrictions on entering others. In addition, residents were subject to health status tracking, allowing for the collection of data and tracing of cases [41]. The WHO noted that China's aggressive response, which focused on masks, hygiene, and temperature monitoring, allowed for strong tracing and control of the virus within a relatively short period of time, providing a strong evidence base for other nations [42].…”

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Impacts of COVID-19 on a Transitioning Energy System, Society, and International Cooperation

Chapman

Tsuji

2020

Sustainability

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Short term outcomes of the COVID-19 pandemic have included improved air quality and reduced carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gas emissions, while long term repercussions may include a disruption to joint international research efforts, the creation of silos, and the potential for internalizing efforts toward national rather than global goals. In this study, we identified the impacts of reduced mobility on pollutants and emissions, the emergence of nationalist approaches and effects on international cooperation, and how these issues will affect the achievement of global carbon targets and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). COVID-19 presents a global short-term crisis and there is a demonstrated global desire and effort to develop a vaccine and effective treatments. Similarly, climate change is also a near future issue, and as a result we need to reduce CO2 emissions rapidly. This review highlights potential policy interventions, which capitalize on learnings from COVID-19, while identifying SDGs 10, 13 and 17 as critical to engendering a successful, cooperative transition toward sustainability. The recognition of the earth as a closed system, demonstrated by the shared impacts of the COVID-19 crisis, may encourage positive future effects on cooperative approaches toward mitigating climate change, another looming crisis for humanity.

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Impacts of COVID-19 on a Transitioning Energy System, Society, and International Cooperation

Chapman

Tsuji

2020

Sustainability

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“…During the COVID-19 crisis, the central authorities led by the Communist Party of China (CPC) relied on the top-down decisionmaking mechanism to make a comprehensive evaluation of the outbreak, safeguard evidence-based state policies, and facilitate targeted control measures (Liu, Yue, and Tchounwou 2020). Under the supervision of the central authorities, provincial governments and all public and private sectors are supposed to follow the instructions provided by the central authorities, perform their respective duties, and cooperate to control the transmission of the coronavirus (Chen et al 2006).…”

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“…In China, community-based management plays a crucial role in cutting off the spread of COVID-19 (Prem et al 2020;Zhang, Zhao, and Hu 2020). Many provinces adopted a rigid regimen of community isolation (Liu et al 2020). In some communities, checkpoints were set up to screen and register access.…”

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“…Research shows that governments may utilize social media platforms to mobilize citizens to participate in social distancing and quarantine (Chen et al 2020; Graham, Avery, and Park 2015), which ultimately facilitates collective actions to restrict and reduce temporary migration flow. Local authorities can also use external and administrative sanctions enforced by public surveillance measures to implement lockdown policies to contain the virus (Liu, Yue, and Tchounwou 2020). The public regulation and law enforcement may lead to varying levels of decline in migration flow in different provinces.…”

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Human mobility restrictions and inter-provincial migration during the COVID-19 crisis in China

Liu

Luo

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Chinese Sociological Review

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The governmental responses to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, including the approach, interventions, and their associated effectiveness, vary across social, cultural, political, and institutional contexts. In China, the Wuhan lockdown significantly reduced the transmission of COVID-19 throughout the country. Chinese central and local governments' responses to disease containment and mitigation were uniform in policymaking but implemented differently across local governing contexts. This study examines the variation in the effects of human mobility restrictions on inter-provincial migration flow during the COVID-19 outbreak in China. The results show that mobility restrictions reduced the inter-provincial in-migration flow by 63%, and the out-migration flow by 62% from late January to early May in 2020, but the effects varied significantly across provinces. Further, the negative effects of mobility restrictions on province's outflow migration were greater in provinces where local governments had higher levels of social media involvement, greater public security spending, and longer duration of first-level response to public health emergencies. The finding provides important insights for understanding China's local governmental responses to mobility restrictions and their effects on the spread of COVID-19. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) emerged in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, in early December of 2019, and rapidly evolved into a global pandemic. In China, a range of interventions were implemented to CONTACT Zhen Liu

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“…On the other hand, Covid-19 is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus at the end of 2019. The first outbreak was reported in Wuhan (China) and then it extended worldwide very fast [57]. At this time, there is no vaccine nor effective treatment available while social distancing, isolation, and quarantine have been revealed to be the most important measurements to counteract its spread.…”

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On Confinement and Quarantine Concerns on an SEIAR Epidemic Model with Simulated Parameterizations for the COVID-19 Pandemic

2020

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This paper firstly studies an SIR (susceptible-infectious-recovered) epidemic model without demography and with no disease mortality under both total and under partial quarantine of the susceptible subpopulation or of both the susceptible and the infectious ones in order to satisfy the hospital availability requirements on bed disposal and other necessary treatment means for the seriously infectious subpopulations. The seriously infectious individuals are assumed to be a part of the total infectious being described by a time-varying proportional function. A time-varying upper-bound of those seriously infected individuals has to be satisfied as objective by either a total confinement or partial quarantine intervention of the susceptible subpopulation. Afterwards, a new extended SEIR (susceptible-exposed-infectious-recovered) epidemic model, which is referred to as an SEIAR (susceptible-exposed-symptomatic infectious-asymptomatic infectious-recovered) epidemic model with demography and disease mortality is given and focused on so as to extend the above developed ideas on the SIR model. A proportionally gain in the model parameterization is assumed to distribute the transition from the exposed to the infectious into the two infectious individuals (namely, symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals). Such a model is evaluated under total or partial quarantines of all or of some of the subpopulations which have the effect of decreasing the number of contagions. Simulated numerical examples are also discussed related to model parameterizations of usefulness related to the current COVID-19 pandemic outbreaks.

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Response to the COVID-19 Epidemic: The Chinese Experience and Implications for Other Countries

Cited by 231 publications

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Impacts of COVID-19 on a Transitioning Energy System, Society, and International Cooperation

Impacts of COVID-19 on a Transitioning Energy System, Society, and International Cooperation

Human mobility restrictions and inter-provincial migration during the COVID-19 crisis in China

On Confinement and Quarantine Concerns on an SEIAR Epidemic Model with Simulated Parameterizations for the COVID-19 Pandemic

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