Taiwan uses big data to counter coronavirus.


Website 5 : https://www.biospectrumasia.com/news/91/15976/taiwan-uses-big-data-to-counter-coronavirus.html

First, from the article, we can learn that the research indicated the risk of local transmission is higher than long-distance transmission between countries and cities. There is an international collaboration is led by Assistant Professor Hsiao-Han Chang of the Institute of Bioinformatics and Structural Biology in NTHU. The preliminary results indicated that the short-distance and local transmission are the most important issue we should focus on in these days rather than long-distance transmission cross the cities.
Assistant Professor also said that she had recently using mathematical modeling to access the impact of wearing face masks. She strongly supported the Central Epidemic Command Center’s (CECC) decision to set up a system distributing masks. In Chang’s team, they used mathematical modeling to simulate the impact of wearing masks. According to Chang, there is a clear correlation between the widespread and correct use of masks and lower infection numbers.
We all need masks in this hard time, but originally, Taiwan does not produce that lot of masks as the daily production. In response to the outbreak, Taiwan forms national teams to catch up with the extremely high quantity that every person can have one mask per day. Millions of masks are produced and distributed daily in Taiwan, and this is one of the reasons that the nation has been able to ride out the pandemic relatively unscathed.
           Not only wearing the masks, the thing we can do to protect ourselves like washing hands and keep the social distance should be promoted by famous humanity such as celebrities or some respectable senior in every field to earn more volume and let’s create a safe society.



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  1. AnonymousJune 2, 2020 at 1:21 AM

    Coronavirus really scared all of us, before when I heard of this virus thing from my parents I was not worry about this, but thinking that this is just like a flu. However, as the time past, the news, the net, the school......, the school day was postponed and we all need to wear masks. I have never know that it will be such a disaster. Luckily, I live in Taiwan, the very two reason that we can control the virus is that Taiwan is small, and the other is that we react fast and do thing with efficiency and effectiveness.

    On January 27, the National Health Insurance Administration (NHIA) and the National Immigration Agency integrated patients’ past 14-day travel history with their NHI identification card data from the NHIA; this was accomplished in 1 day. Taiwan citizens’ household registration system and the foreigners’ entry card allowed the government to track individuals at high risk because of recent travel history in affected areas. Those identified as high risk (under home quarantine) were monitored electronically through their mobile phones. On January 30, the NHIA database was expanded to cover the past 14-day travel history for patients from China, Hong Kong, and Macau. On February 14, the Entry Quarantine System was launched, so travelers can complete the health declaration form by scanning a QR code that leads to an online form, either prior to departure from or upon arrival at a Taiwan airport. A mobile health declaration pass was then sent via SMS to phones using a local telecom operator, which allowed for faster immigration clearance for those with minimal risk. This system was created within a 72-hour period. On February 18, the government announced that all hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies in Taiwan would have access to patients’ travel histories.

    I really appreciate our government, and I hope the virus will be controlled soon.

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