[grc] Coronavirus

[Michael J White]

Hello All

I produce Baroque and Beyond ... which is why I'm on this list. I am 
also a physician and also running for local office (none of you can vote 
for me!) -- County Board of Supervisors.  One of the reasons I'm running 
is to provide even more support for our Health Department.

I put the attached generic advice together for the voters in my 
district.  Feel Free to distribute broadly.  Also, please see the letter 
I wrote to my colleagues in China.

As it turns out, the letter was fairly widely published in each of the 
two provinces.  Dr. Zhang had now sent back a response, expressing 
support for all of us in the USA.

The response from Dr. Zhang is below.  I have only edited grammar mistakes.

Dear Michael,

It is my obligation to share your letter with Chinese doctors!

The epidemic in your State and country now  is just as the situation  in 
Jinan and other parts of China in the early February this year. The 
epidemic broke out in Wuhan at the end of January. Wuhan was locked down 
at midnight on Jan 23. This is the time of Chinese New year. People all 
over the country are required not go to gathering, just staying at 
home.  The centralgovernment  has a strong will to control the epidemic 
and take concrete measures to find patients, and manage patient 
infectiousness, and care for patients.  Resources from all of the 
country are assembled and allocated to Wuhan.  At the same time, local 
government of other cities and provinces respond immediately and take 
two main measures to control the epidemic--prevent imported cases from 
other provinces (transportation control) and confine the spread of the 
epidemic in local areas (admit patient to the hospital and isolate close 
contact of the patient,cancel all gathering events). The whole country 
is involved in this  anti-epidemic campaign. Four of my colleagues in 
this skin disease hospital went to Wuhan to work with the local doctors 
shoulder by shoulder. This is an emergency time. Everybody should bear 
its responsibility to fight against the epidemic.Officials who do not 
take his or her legal obligation for this campaign will be fired. After 
45 days hardworking, the epidemic in China is controlled.

In my opinion,China's experience of confining the epidemic  is as 
followings  1. The Centralgovernment has a strong will and is able to 
motivate the whole country’s  resource to fight against the epidemic. 2. 
People all over the country follow the government instructions of 
anti-epidemic actions.  33 Support from international community.  At the 
beginning of the epidemic, Wuhan not only got lot of resources from 
Japan, Korea and other parts of the world, but also got messages, 
letters and  encouragement from international community to show 
support and sympathy to Chinese people.  Your letter 
deeplymotivatedustofight against the epidemicand gave us a great 
supportin this special time. My colleagues all over the country and I 
will remember your support forever!

US has much more resources, you have the best health care professionals, 
best scientists and the most powerful motivation abilities in the world. 
  I learned that the federal government has taken strong  measures to 
confine the epidemic. I  believe the epidemic in US and other parts of 
the world will be controlled soon.

Michael, Please take care of yourself and your families, hoping 
everything goes well!

Have a good weekend

Furen Zhang MDPhD


Vice President of ShandongFirst MedicalUniversity
On 3/20/20 8:19 AM, Spencer Graves via grc wrote:
> Hello, All:
>
>
>       Below and attached please find instructions from one of the 
> leading volunteers at KKFI, Kansas City Community Radio.  The details 
> are slightly different, but the instructions are similar to what we 
> are hearing from other sources:  If you do not feel well, call the 
> station to arrange a replacement and self-isolate. If you feel a need 
> to see a physician, call first.[1]  Do phone interviews rather than 
> having guests come into the station.  Where feasible, avoid in-person 
> meetings and use conference calls and videoconferencing.
>
>
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