Leaders in contact research, immediate protocols, and isolation come from countries with economies much smaller than the United States.
This phenomenon – rich countries are to the least rich countries to find answers – it is called opposite innovation.
“Over the few centuries, the ultimate inventions have traveled from evolved regions to emerging regions of the world,” says Ramamurti, who is also director of the Emerging Markets Center in the Northeast. “Now we see more innovation spreading in the opposite direction.”
With fifth-year behavioral neuroscience student Jorja Kahn and Northeast alumni Hugh Shirley and Jamie McGloin, Ramamurti recently presented an online page describing the effective methods developed around the world that countries can emulate in the opposite combat against COVID-19.
It is “a position to organize, provide and consolidate information,” Kahn explains.
“We need to get in touch with public fitness organizations and local leaders and upload communication links so that we can percentage of concepts of the resources themselves,” he says.
The online page provides the most productive practices in general strategy, prevention, detection, touch search, isolation and quarantine, remedy and vaccines, and reopening.
Rapid and accurate testing, a strategy that public fitness officials are mandatory to defeat COVID-19, was controlled at the beginning of the pandemic through South Korea, where the source of income in the capita represents a little more of the source of the capita. income in the United States.
On Tuesday, South Korea recorded 305 COVID-19 deaths.
The country is credited with two pioneering inventions that have been widely followed around the world: banks and booths.
“Driving controls are safer because they’re outside, other people don’t have to get out of their cars and they decrease the number of other people in hospitals,” Ramamurti says. “It’s a smart way to control a lot of other people temporarily and economically.”
Driving testing systems were first introduced in South Korea with the merS outbreak, some other respiratory coronavirus, in 2015, Ramamurti said.
Part of the explanation for why some emerging countries have controlled COVID-19 more effectively is because they have “faced epidemics from time to time for more than two years,” Ramamurti says.
To manage COVID-19 controls, South Korea has invented a new type of portable installation for dense spaces where car control is not possible: a plastic or glass tension control booth that eliminates contact between the doctor and the patient.
The patient and the doctor are separated through a window with openings for two rubber sleeves that enlarge from the patient’s appearance, allowing the doctor to remove a pattern from the patient by sharing the same air or making contact.
This type of stand has already been followed through Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, which, according to Ramamurti, “demonstrates that opposing innovation is simply theoretical.”
With regard to inventions in contact tracking, Ramamurti says That Vietnam has an exclusive and highly effective strategy that tracks inflamed people, their touches and touches of touches, as well as isolation protocols to make studies useful.
Anyone in Vietnam who test positives and contacts a test test positive user is remote for two weeks at government facilities, free of charge, and touches are required to isolate at home.
Per capita income in the U.S. is nearly 26 times that of Vietnam, and as of Tuesday, Vietnam had recorded 16 COVID-19 deaths.
“I hesitate to say which country has the focus of locating contacts due to confidentiality issues,” says Shirley, one of the northeastern graduates. “Although Vietnam is effective, it is very totalitarian.”
Ramamurti says other people have wondered whether such successes can simply be attributed to other political systems. “But what about South Korea? It’s a democracy,” he said.
Shirely that “while many of the countries we test are communists, many of them are democracies, which shows that it is not very unlikely that this will be achieved in the United States with this taste of government.”
But if the government’s taste is necessarily a factor in determining which emerging markets will have effective COVID-19 procedures, what is it?
In addition to the fact that many of these countries have faced epidemics in the past, Ramamurti says: Prevention costs much less than curing a disease. These countries have strong public fitness systems, but they may not have the resources to treat other people who are seriously ill, so they should stifle the epidemic at the root. “
“In the United States, we assume that other people are going to get sick. We think we have enough doctors and equipment, so we think that if other people get sick, we can fix it,” he says.
But, as McGloin says, “We’re running out of this luxury in the United States.”
As the world prepares for a possible momentary wave of COVID-19 this fall, will the United States, which still cannot face its initial epidemic, turn to other countries in search of much-needed solutions?