NEW YORK (AP) – After a nationwide shutdown during the first outbreak of the coronavirus earlier this year, some countries and the U.S. States are trying to take more targeted action, especially in Europe and America, with cases rising again around the world..
A new round of New York virus shutdowns has zeroed in on individual neighborhoods, shutting down schools and businesses in hot spots measuring just two to four square miles.
Spanish authorities made limited travel to some parts of Madrid before the restrictions were extended throughout the capital and some suburbs.
Italian authorities sometimes set aside small places like a building.
While countries including Israel And the Czech Republic Nationwide dams have been re-established, with other governments hoping that in conjunction with testing, contact tracing and other initiatives they have created, this time a small-scale shutdown could work.
The notion of having hot spots is not new, but is being tested under new pressure as authorities try to avoid a horrific resurgence of illness and death, this time with economies weakened by previous lockdowns, populations over the idea of banning renewal and Some communities complain of unequal treatment.
Some scientists say that if the local approach, if properly formulated and explained to the public, can lead to a mild response to a critical point of the epidemic.
“It’s practical in appreciation of ‘ban fatigue’ … but it’s strategic, allowing them to be mobilized where there is a great need for adequate resources,” says Dr. Wafa Al-Sadr, who praised New York City’s efforts. Closely and follows. Some are on the city advisory board.
Other scientists are hotter.
“If we’re serious about eradicating covid in a field, we need to have as extensive health responses as possible,” says Benjamin Elthaus, a research scientist at the Washington State Institute for Disease Modeling.
In a study that was posted online but not published in a journal or reviewed by independent experts, Elthhouse and other scientists found that this spring in the U.S. In between patchwork coronavirus-control measures, some people were traveling farther than usual for activities such as worship. Suggests they may have responded to the termination by chirping hopscotch in less-restricted areas.
Still, the choice between limited closure and broad sanctions is a “very difficult decision,” Elthhouse notes. “I’m glad I didn’t create it.”
Early in the eruption, countries tried to curb hot spots from the limestone Wuhan – where a strict lockdown was considered the key to scleching transmission in the world’s most populous country – Italy, where Lombardy decided to seal 10 cities in the northern region.
After the first outbreak of the virus, authorities have been fighting flare-ups with city-sized closures in recent months in locations from Barcelona, Spain to Melbourne. .Australia.
In the English city of Leicester, unnecessary shops were closed and bans on homes were banned in late June.
The infection rate dropped from 135 cases per 100 months to 25 cases per 100,000 in about two months.
Proponents of her case have been working to make the actual transcript of this statement available online. Skeptics argued that transmission rates were generally lower during the summer in the United Kingdom, where more than 43,000 deaths were highest in Europe, according to figures compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
As infections and deaths rise again in Britain, scientists have advised authorities to implement a national, two-week lockdown. Instead, on Monday the government carved out England into three levels of coronavirus risk, With those wise restrictions.
“As a general principle, the goal of targeting specific groups or geographical areas is more preferable than one-size-fits-all measures, as they allow us to minimize the damage that is inevitably imposed on society and the economy.” Toxwarde, who specializes in economic epidemiology at Cakesbridge University.
Steven Goldstein, who had to close his New York City men’s hat shop last week, did not feel the loss.
Craft૨ year old business, Bancraft Hatters is one of the few small areas across the state with new restrictions. Officials hope they can avert a widespread crisis in the state, which has left behind a devastating spike in the U.S. this spring and has lost 33,000 people to date.
Goldstein takes the virus seriously – he said both he and his mother did the early stages – and he sees the economic rationale behind trying local restrictions rather than other or statewide closures in the city.
But he questions whether the zone captures all the odds, and the order in which sanctions are coming to his shop, he says, he confidently applied to wearing masks and other rules.
“I did my part, and a lot of other people did our part, and yet we’re being forced to shut down,” said Goldstein, 53, who tapped for savings to sustain a third-generation business through an earlier shutdown.
In New York’s most restricted “red zone,” places of worship cannot accommodate more than 10 people at a time, and schools and nonsensical businesses are closed. Those zones are combined into smaller orange and yellow zones with lighter restrictions.
However some researchers say officials need to consider not only where people live, but also where they go. In New York City, people can completely escape the restrictions by giving the subway one or two stops.
“Considering some of the surrounding spillovers, there is room for improvement,” says John Bridges, professor of business research operations at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. “They are modeling how fellow Ozan Kendogan and Yidding Feng, a graduate student at Northwestern University, can reduce both infection and economic harm in New York City; research has not yet been reviewed by other experts.
If hotspot measures can be strategic, their improper choice has also been criticized.
In Brooklyn, Jewish Jews have complained that their communities are being left alone For criticism. In Madrid, residents of working class areas under mobility restrictions say officials are stigmatized Poor. Owners of restaurants and bars in Marseille, France, said the city was improperly targeted last month for the country’s most difficult virus regulations at the time. As of Saturday, several French cities, including Paris Reis and Marseille, were subject to sanctions, including a 9 a.m. curfew.
When apartment apartment complex accommodation mostly Bulgarian migrant farm workers Locked down in late June in the Italian city of Mondregon, workers protested and about a dozen atrocities were broken.
Other Denizens of Mondragon feared that the infection would spread and, at one point, surrounded the buildings and chased the occupants, one of whom threw down a chair. Authorities eventually called for restraint and peace in the army.
For hot spot shutdowns to work, public health experts say, the message behind the measures is key.
“Draw along: ‘Here is a community in need. … We must be sympathetic, “said Henry F. Rutgers, professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at Rutgers University. Said Raymond. “It’s not a criticism of people’s behavior. He simply says, ‘These communities need more attention.’ ”
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Associated Press writers Pan Pallas in London, Nicole Winfield in Rome, Sylvie Corbett in Paris and Eritz Mercury in Madrid contributed.
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