Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) was first discovered in Asia in February 2003. The outbreak lasted for about six months, with the disease spreading to more than two dozen countries in North America, South America, Europe and Asia before stopping July 2003. But now with the Now, with a new coronavirus spreading even at a faster rate than its SARS-causing sister virus, the Global Health Authorities (GHA) are applying lessons learned from nearly 20 years ago, and reinforced over outbreaks like Ebola and H1N1 in the interim, to halt the new epidemic.
The Control and Prevention Centers introduced limited travel restrictions to and from other parts of the world, but when people were in the United States, public health departments were obliged to find the best way to find new cases and track people in at risk of disease. There were significant differences in strategies and there was some disappointment.
Some valuable that the United States have paid closed attention has been the lessons in disease response, one in specific is in terms of identifying people traveling to the United States from affected countries which sometimes by very circuitous routes and connecting them with public health authorities. In cases the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) once people had been identified. These passengers had to be re-booked in order to send them to specific airports in order to go through specific screenings.
For instance, according to the Allday (2020) thought out airport not only with the United States as destinations the federal authorities quickly to introduced travel restrictions and screenings this year. although several government-chartered planes full of passengers evacuated from China have been quarantined upon landing, so far there have been no emergency scrambles on the tarmac and because of these precautions and practices the coronavirus is being controlled