Lessons from the 2003 SARS Outbreak that can be Applied to COVID-19
Today, we interview Dr. Annelies Wilder-Smith, a renowned expert on public health and professor of infectious disease research at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine in Singapore. In this episode, we discuss Dr. Wilder-Smith’s paper published in Lancet Infectious Diseases titled, “Can We Contain the COVID-19 Outbreak With the Same Measures as for SARS?”.
Thanks for joining us for this wonderful opportunity to learn from one of the leading researchers on the COVID pandemic. Enjoy!
Talking Points:
- About this podcast and our mission (0:00)
- Experiences with SARS in Singapore (1:15)
- China’s methods of controlling SARS (3:12)
- COVID and SARS characteristics (3:40)
- Differences between the response in Western and Asian countries. (5:00)
- The importance of testing (5:52)
- Pandemic response in megacities (6:29)
- Adapting community-based quarantine (7:43)
- Precision quarantine (9:15)
- Final thoughts (9:45)
Resources:
“Can We Contain the COVID-19 Outbreak With the Same Measures as for SARS?”
Lancet Infectious Diseases. 2020 May 20. EPub 2020 March 5.