Inside Taiwan’s Response to COVID-19
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 เม.ย. 2020
- Taiwan has emerged as a success story in the global battle against COVID-19, having had fewer than 500 cases and only six deaths among its roughly 23 million residents as of April 24, 2020.
It has been credited with taking early action to prevent the spread of the coronavirus as it emerged and for avoiding the lockdown measures many other countries implemented.
Taiwan’s Vice President Chen Chien-jen received a Doctor of Science degree in epidemiology and human genetics from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 1982. On Friday, April 24, Vice President Chen joined Dean Ellen J. MacKenzie for a conversation about Taiwan’s early and effective response to the coronavirus. They discussed the specific measures Taiwan took to control the spread of the virus and how Vice President Chen’s public health training played a role.
Their conversation was preceded by brief remarks from Brent Christensen, director of the American Institute in Taiwan.
Webcast Guests:
Chen Chien-Jen, ScD ’82
Vice President of Taiwan
Ellen J. Mackenzie, PhD ’79, ScM ’75
Dean, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Brent Christensen, DMD, MA
Director, American Institute in Taiwan
More Information:
www.jhsph.edu/covid-19/events...
NOTE: Closed captions will be uploaded soon. - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
good work Taiwan. We are all proud of you. Your democracy success is the beacon in the pacific region.
I'm Taiwanese and I just wanna say thanks to all the people who support us. Thank u :)
I'm Taiwanese and just wanted to thank you for the support. Really appreciate it 🙏
Even as a mainland chinese, I really appreciate Taiwan's great job. I hope mainland china can one day be as good as Taiwan.
Well done Taiwan - an example for the world. Regards from New Zealand
You've done a good job as well. Regards from Taiwan.
I would love to see a dialogue between President Tsai Ing-wen and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern! They can spend more than an hour talking about how their slightly different approaches defeated the virus!
nz did well too
Taiwan does well than ours (Finland).
Very intelligent approach. Wishing all the best to Taiwan.
Note, he didn't say "we have done a good job....a very good job indeed" and he didn't say that "it will miraculously go away when the days get warmer". Less blah-blah-blah and more job done in Taiwan. I am impressed.
Sirene 74
Dr. Chen , the Vice President of Taiwan, is a very humble and with genially deeds.
He is a world-renowned epidemiologist. Scholars usually like to play it safe.
Virus will not go away. Look at India, Africa, Singapore all these hot countries..... Wear mask (especially surgical mask), wash hand. Build a government community for those in quarantee - able to receive daily care for continues 14 days. This is the fundamental key to fight against Covid-19
Taiwan is very lucky to have Chen Chien-Jen as Vice President.
I can't agree more!
I think the key point is we trust doctors Here , there r some key politicians here r doctors including Taipei Mayor , they handle politics more rational
Yes, I didn't know the vice-president is an epidemiologist, but it makes a little bit more sense how Taiwan's response was so robust. Having someone so knowledgeable so high up was really just lucky!
Willow Yang Taiwan’s success is actually not just Chen Chien-Jen but also a great team work.
Taiwan will change to next Vice President after 20 May, he also is another doctor .
Well done Taiwan. You are doing a remarkable job and thank you very much help with all mask that you have donated.
Thank you 大仁哥, Mr. Vice President, as a world-renowned public health specialist, for gathering the public health experts as a great team and for your strong leadership in keeping Our country safe.
We are so lucky to have u as our Vice President. Thank u 大仁哥❤️
Vice President Chen is a blessing for all our Taiwanese. We trust his leadership and he really does his best to make Taiwan a better place.
Thanks for Johns Hopkins and pray for all Americans. Together we can overcome this pandemic!
It is especially sad that Bruce Aylward, a senior leader of the WHO, couldn’t bring himself to even utter the word Taiwan when specifically asked by a Hong Kong journalist about Taiwan’s exemplary timely and effective response to the developing Covid-19 epidemic. As a Canadian I am ashamed that official Canada continues to pretend that Taiwan doesn’t exist, and chose - and continues to choose - not to avail itself of the experience and expertise of a fellow democracy that is on the front line.
@@sommmeguy well said
@@sommmeguy There is another aspect of pandemic management that Taiwan energetically attempted to address in the most critical early days of the outbreak...and which again painfully illustrates the baleful influence exerted by Beijing, and official Canada’s supine position as an extender of that influence.
As soon as Taiwan’s epidemiological intelligence centre recognized that a serious novel respiratory pathogen was spreading from Wuhan, it contacted the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a U.N. agency headquartered in Montreal, Canada. If ICAO had supplied - at Taiwan’s initiative - the requested flight codes, a focussed and targeted effort in the critical early days of the outbreak could have concentrated on a relatively small and manageable number of passengers who would be the earliest international spreaders of the outbreak.
The current head of ICAO is a Beijing-nominated PRC national. Not surprisingly, Taiwan’s intelligent early efforts were thwarted. Even though there was clear (just not WHO- or ICAO-sanctioned) information on which to base closer inspection of PRC-originating flights, official Canada deferred to the false information from WHO and non-information from ICAO ... and failed to implement measures at the critical Vancouver (YVR) and Toronto (YYZ) ports of entry when they could have made a difference.
A sad and disillusioning conclusion that needs to be drawn, is that there can be no relying on U.N. or multilateral organizations in which Beijing has any influence. Rather, those states that can, will need to deepen those bilateral and ‘unofficial’ connections which will reliably supply accurate information in a timely manner. In many areas Taiwan should be sought as just such a partner, even if done through “back-channels” with officials still mouthing Beijing-approved platitudes and falsehoods. Canada, take note.
it's OK. Taiwan learn it from SARS. We are all learning. from the crisis, everyone can see " a friend in need, it's a friend in deed". For those politician stand with CCP, don't vote them next time :)
Great leadership from Taiwan. Thank you to Johns Hopkins for sharing this interview with the public, and thank you to Taiwan for setting an example for the rest of us on how to deal with this pandemic:
1. Transparency and data sharing with your own people and the international community
2. Providing financial, shelter and food assistance for those who are socioeconomically disadvantaged and have to quarantine due to possible exposure
3. Contact tracing as well as effective and expansive testing
4. Expanding production lines for PPE and ensuring people can buy masks at low prices
5. International research collaboration
Go Taiwan!
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Thank you, Johns Hopkins and Taiwan. This is so informative.
Worth to watch - for the whole world!
Johns Hopkins thank you! Great interview, great information. Who could have imagined, who would have known? TAIWAN of course ! Sounds like we need you in the WHO. Wake up people.
So proud to be Taiwanese!
Perhaps Taiwan’s anti-epidemic method is too late for most countries, but COVID-19 is not the last epidemic. Taiwan’s experience can help most countries fight the next epidemic.
Winnie Xi too late and why? Because China was covering this up since the very beginning for as long as they can. They,re the one wasted everybody,s time. Even Taiwan was not as naive as the rest of the world to trusted China and WHO, they had to figure it out by themself with the try and fail method...and it takes time
But advices from Taiwan can still help cuz Taiwan dealt with SARS back in 2002-2003 as well.
However, someone keeps tripping on the same stone, and then trying to make others fall together......
By the way, never be too late as soon as you start🙏💪❤️
I still remember when America helped improve Taiwan’s public health conditions 50 years ago. Maybe there were some excesses done by USA to other countries. I only had gratitudes toward the USA. Many lives has been saved by the selfless deeds done by people across a vast ocean for reasons most people did not understand.
Taiwan can help
If US were to fund WHO, Taiwan should become a contributing member.
Agreed, also none of that observer bs, only full member, and quit the humiliating "Chinese Taipei".
@@andymetzen Basically Taiwan is an separate country it's not "China Taipei " since it's been observer WHO 2010-2016.
@@user-rr3yw3cf5d As a Taiwanese, I am glad to see someone outside know our situation.
YES !
Trump just pulled the U.S. out of the WHO and I doubt it was in protest of their exclusion of Taiwan.😕
This is an important video on lessons learned from countries' fights against infectious disease. Taiwan should be included in the WHO because they're at the forefront of the fight against infectious disease. This is especially important since Taiwan is a democratic country adjacent to China, one of the least democratic countries in the world. Taiwan's intelligence on possible origination of infectious disease from China has proven to be most invaluable.
I agree with you
Absolutely! We - the US and all other countries all should support Taiwan to be a member of WHO, and hopefully it won't be "CHO" anymore.
The fact that Taiwan has an epidemiologist for VP during a time like this is just providence.
Amazing. How is this possible?
Thank you so much for sharing! ❤️I really like Taiwan CDC and CECC's scientific approaches.The home quarantine tracking system with support services is awesome. Wearing facial masks or keeping social distance are important. Big data, transparency, frequent communication to the public, and collaboration all together rock!
Vice President Chen is one of the key people to build Taiwan model during this pandemic, successfully Taiwan has democratic environment and mature citizens to support on what Taiwan government policy!
Thank you Taiwan for showing us early respond is the key and share your success story with the world. 🙏
Would someone please consider publishing some kind of English e-book Manual (for easy download) for the Taiwan's Ideas on "How to Response to COVID-19" for helping many Healthcare Managers in the world?? Thanks!
Go to Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs' websites.. Detailed informations are published there.
Taiwan has all the copy (from government, hospital, hotel) how to block transmission. All copy in English.. but we can't share if we aren't part of the WHO......
LOVE TAIWAN !!!
8:03 Taiwan’s Vice President Chen Chien-jen begins his power point presentation
Hello❤
Taiwan successfully showed the world that every country can prevent a highly contagious plague from spreading without turning into an Orwellian nightmare.
Hello
Unrelated to this topic, I want to quote what the Taiwanese president said many times on TV:
"There will be no chance for shady businesses.
We have access capacity!
If other nations need help, we will provide the help they need."
Taiwan have an intelligent leaders and the people's here have self desipline and good health-care
As both Taiwanese and American (dual citizen), the major difference is that BOTH political parties and majority Taiwanese citizens supported Taiwan CDC and health officials. Not saying there weren't any complaints but it was well supported by majority citizens. The president of Taiwan supported CDC guidelines from the very start. If medical staff needed more PPE at the beginning of February, she instructed the entire government to make more masks. This is what unity over science looks like during pandemic.
Pre-election (US) vs post-election period (TW). Two very different circumstances. It seems that a pandemic ocurring on an election year can be more chaotic and tragical (politics before health).
Thank you of showing the way Taiwan, I hope the world will learn from your methods!
Too bad for us here in the Philippines, in January, we are being beaten by Mt. Taal eruption while then nCoV, now COVID19, is beginning to expand its breadth. And the first mortality of COVID19 outside China is from our country.
Taiwan has prove their case during this pandemic! Kudos to all the people of Taiwan & its government!
Cheers & mabuhay from tropical Philippines!
Well done Taiwan. Role model to other countries. Thanks to Johns Hopkins for inviting Vice President Chen to share his (Taiwan's) experiences of fighting COVID-19 with everyone.
Well down Taiwan.
You are getting better! I am so proud of Taiwan.
Taiwan can help,Taiwan is helping.
Hope the hard hit countries by coronavirus can learn something from my beloved homeland Taiwan.
Well done Taiwan! Gosh i wish every country adopt their methods then we can start traveling again soon!
Distancing has only been recommended around early April - before that are:
masks, avoid touching nose, eyes, mounth (super important) and hand hygiene.
Sad that Chen Chien-jen is leaving, but confident that the new Vice President will continue Taiwan's good work! he's also a doctor by the way. A lot of doctors-turned-politicians in Taiwan, idk why.
Well done!!!! Definitely taking notes.
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This is what happens when you don't listen to WHO and close your borders on the 31st December 2019 meanwhile most of the world waited until February/March under WHO guidelines
Stephen Quate In fact since 2003, when you enter the country, you have to pass temperature check before you go to border control, meaning that if people have fever, the immigration officers and CDC staff will send you to hospital (not deporting people!!!) first just to make sure people are carrying infectious diseases into our country.
Also using mask and trusting your government.
Taiwan: Every single person wears a mask
USA: Karens refusing to wear a mask
Johns Hopkins is the BEST ! Thank you for the excellent care ❤ given to Marguerite Adair ❤❤❤
Thank you SO MUCH for this Wonderful, Intelligent Response! You give me Hope...
VP CHEN was our health minister during our struggle against SARS
Taiwan beats the COVID-19 without WHO........
神奇的youtube演算法讓我看到這影片XD 感謝這影片讓全世界知道Taiwan can help!!
Taiwan really can help and share.
Wearing mask on doesn’t mean illness , instead , protecting the love ones and yourself as well.
This concept in Taiwan is used to be but its total different compare with all eastern countries.
Respect from china. You've done a really good job
Thank you for talking about Taiwan 🇹🇼. I’ll finish the video later.
Admirable !
In spite of all the endeavor in Taiwan, in fairness it might be out of luck so. Still so proud of being as a Taiwanese! Crushed it!
WILLY C when you are prepared, luck is overrated. Think about most of events in our lives... 🤷♀️
Thanks Taiwan for the info and using "Common Sense"😇🙏
Very interesting! I would have liked to hear about the medicines and other treatments they used to keep the total deaths to 6. Quite an achievement!
Who needs the WHO when we have Taiwan expertise. Trump should swallow his pride and ask Dr Chen for advice.
I think his presentation is very informative but he skipped some of the details. Is it possible to publish the presentation if Mr. Chen agrees to it?
Go to Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affair website. More detailed measures are provided there.
Congrats for this webinar
Since the beginning of January, when I go out I always wear a surgical mask and always sanitize my hands with 75% alcohol if I touch anything outside my house. This novel corona virus can be killed by 75% alcohol so bring a bottle with you and use it properly! In the past few months, Taiwanese people frequently used 75% alcohol to clean things that people will touch with their bare hands and that would help stop the spread of the virus. It's never too late to take care of your personal hygiene. Good luck and stay healthy.
A good public health system is very important. I wish this could actually happen in the United States of America. In Taiwan, we have the wold class medical system and staff and keep the cost incredibley low. Every time I visited Taiwan, I always went for a full day check up. Of course, as a US citizen, I had to pay full price for the services. It is still cheaper than what I paid in the US with insurance discount which could cost me couple thousand fo dollars.
Just a reminder, Taiwan's active cases of Covid-19 dropped to 116 (Apr 28).
Taiwan is a great country
Strategy of Taiwan and S. Korea show that response of most Western nations has been a bit stupid. The common factor of Taiwan and S. Korea strategy was identification and tracking of those infected and placing them only instead of everyone into quarantine.
Politics aside good job Taiwan! From a mainlander, we can see your statistics which is world leading.
Taiwan No.1
Taiwan should set up consultancy helping every nation prepare a detailed response to future pandemics. The Big one is yet to come.If we all could only learn from Taiwan how to meet it this political poisonous landscape we are suffering from will have been worth it.
Taiwan's respons is a model for countries all over the world.
#Taiwancanhelp! #Taiwanishelping!
When humans collaborate, miracles happen...
Good for all of their efforts to reduce the transmission and mortality. Pro-china's countries in Europe got hit hard this time, their leaders should rethink their policy and relation with china, a totalitarian untransparent country, doesn't care about anything but their power thru corruption. These are the fact in Taiwan this time:
1. act quickly, epidemic prevention is like a combat
2. govt and citizens work together, transparency press daily and public health education, life and death are in one line, they work and cooperate well measuring the line.
3. experience from SARS in 2003, Frontline Medcial care profession routine drill, trained professions.
4. never believe in anything CCP China and their propagandas say and do, clarafication immediately and ppl's good judgement thru out the time from china's fake information influence. Western countries had influenced by this amid pandemic which caused huge transmission, china's penetration and medias, politician propagandas CCP china sent out.
5. like director of AIT America Institute in Taiwan said: 5T, Transparency, Tracking, Testing, Technology, Transportation control.
Transcript or closed captions please.
Hello! Thank you for your interest. We are having the video transcribed over the weekend and hope to add captions first thing Monday morning. We will send an update when they are available, and we regret the delay!
Deb Dobson on the top right corner, click on the 3 vertical dots, then select CC English.
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Coming from the UK, I remember when first coming to Taiwan in 2005 and I couldn’t understand why people wore masks quite often, especially during winter.
Now I know. Very wise people - especially with their experience of SARS in 2003.
Is Taiwan saying that if all countries responded as early as Taiwan and a similar response there would be no global economic depression?
I can’t answer this question for our government, but so far this model works almost perfect for us, well, we still have to cancel the events that might lead to mass gathering, and some business are still having crisis, otherwise pretty much everything is working as usual.
I think there are couple reasons Taiwan keeps this pandemic under control: 1, by the end of December 2019, one of our CDC doctors spot the whistle blower’s post from China online and reported to his superiors, instead of getting blamed, they took it serious and actually tried to find out if that is something really happening, that’s why they reported to WHO (which we all know how it goes); 2, honestly we don’t trust any information from CCP government, so even though they reply nothing serious happened, our government still decided to respond with the highest percussion; 3, we are prepared for the pandemic since SARS outbreak! Back then so many people and medical staffs died or still living with complications, our CDC swear that they don’t want the tragedy to repeat again, so every year they practice how to respond on if any pandemic occurred; 4, majority of Taiwanese know the history back in 2003, so people are tending to cooperate the instructions from CECC, which does daily briefing and press conferences every day.
Sometimes I do think we are lucky that we are not (by volunteer) in WHO, since we were so blocked by CCP and WHO, we can only rely on ourselves and rather “over-reacting” then doing nothing at all. But mostly because our government was prepared, and they leave minimally political influence on making decisions, and everybody working hand-in-hand to fight this pandemic.
For sure.It means if every country took the same action like Taiwan coronavirus wouldn't spread that much around the world.
Hi, I'm Taiwanese, Taiwan really did a great job in 2020, but not now...
No wonder, Taiwan is doing such good job.
Vice President is from Johns Horkins
Well done you little people, may the world learn from you..
What Taiwan has done is exactly what US and the European nations should have done back in January. Tragically, the reality is all these nations did absolutely nothing and treated it so casually. Too comfortable far too long consequently destroys our alertness.
Well done Taiwan !
luckily i am working here in Taiwan. and experience the security of health amidst this covid 19..Taiwan is doing a bery good job against this virus
Great job, Taiwan!
Taiwan,
we are all proud of you
Will we see a similar video on Vietnam which has done even better with a larger population?
I think VN did a good job too. Also need to consider how many people returned Taiwan from China, USA, and Europe. VN not that much.
Yes South Korea also has pretty successful model after the little go-easy beginning. They also have many Alumi from JHU.
“Taiwan had learned hard lessons from the SARS outbreak in 2003, during which 150,000 people were quarantined and 181 people died. According to a report in the Journal of American Medical Association, Taiwan instituted a list of 124 measures to protect its citizenry, including banning travel from China very early and strict quarantine. They started inspecting flights from Wuhan, China, as early as Dec. 31, 2019.“
countries closer to The Peoples’ Republic of The Mao had awareness of realities in china, and so were able to prepare. westerners were naive to how primitive and polluted china really is.
Proud of Taiwan 🇹🇼
Early success stories but an outbreak is developing in Taiwan .
death rate higher than the world.
Why did president Trump choose to believe president Xi instead of President Chen in January?
Taiwan #1
God bless USA & TAIWAN.
12:02 navy members on the fleet
If they work so close with Taiwan why didn't they alert JH?
Taiwan has been working with the US from the very beginning of this epidemic. Not sure what your intentions are?
難道這也是 阿滴聯絡的嗎?
阿滴叫的動AIT酈英傑處長和陳副總統嗎？？？
拜託😂🤣🤣🤣
Dailyjohnful 副總統是這個學校的校友，應該不用阿滴聯絡
Reacts fast and seriously on their own judgement though Taiwan is not a member of WHO.
I think US should learn to distribute masks earlier and equally with name-registered system.
JH should do Vietnam (what's behind their cheap, yet very successful, strategy -- fewer than 300 cases and 0 death so far?) and South Korea (how to respond, control and exit from pandemic in an open democratic society -- open border, no lockdown, just contact tracing) next.
tooltalk I have been in Vietnam for 17 years the figures shown by the government might not be trustworthy .
'Cause their VP isn't JH alum? :)
tooltalk VN is a Communist country so numbers might not be trustworthy
Chen didn't answer how Taiwan managed test kits logistic and supply-chain problems found in other countries. I also noticed that the number of test per population is fairly low -- is it safe to assume that Taiwan didn't get to that point because of their low initial infection rate? It also looks like they are exporting a lot of masks and PPEs, but not test kits, again so I guess Taiwan never ramped up their test kit production. IMHO, Taiwan's early intervention in border control helped to deter wide spread, but not sure if their approach in everything else is scalable beyond Taiwan.
He mentioned that they didn't think mass testing was necessary because most cases were imported and they're able to trace contacts on all but 10 (?) cases. They started screening inbound passengers on 12/31. I saw a PBS news video that shows Taiwan's screening at the airport. All passengers go through health interview at the airport. Anyone with symptoms or from a high risk area is tested right at the airport and put in strict quarantine. The gov provides transport, lodging (if the visitor doesn't have a house to go to), meals and health checks. However, Taiwan is testing a rapid testing device it developed.
tooltalk Yes, Taiwan have shutdown borders and producing masks early enough therefore it wasn’t spreading, for countries that have massive outbreaks, they should look at South Korea.
I think Taiwan didn't get to that point is because Taiwan started early. As Chen mentioned, Taiwan issued level 1 travel notice on 1/7/2020, 8 days before WHO announced "limited human-to-human transmission. In addition, he didn't clearly explain how Taiwan, a medical mask importing country in January, is now able to donate masks worldwide. Again, Taiwan started early. In January 2020, when Taiwan realized the danger of Corona virus, a "mask national team" was scrambled together with volunteering industries. They procured necessary parts to build machines to produce masks. In the meantime, Taiwan also stooped exporting of any masks from stocks in Taiwan just as Chinese were buying masks from allover the world. As the result, Taiwan is able to provide sufficient masks to its population to curb the spread of the disease. It is this detailed preparedness that allows Taiwan to keep the infection rate low.
Different strategies for different development stages of this pandemic. Stage 1 is Taiwan, and stage 2 is S.Korea. They both demonstrate the most effective measures.
The keys to success of stage 1, may contain precise contact history of the confirmed patients, thorough execution of 14-day self-quarantine, and high willings of cooperation in respond to government instructions. There're not only cold physical rules, but also mental careness and empathy. The CDC commander - minister Chen plays a crucial role. He keeps emphasizing the privacy of the confirmed and asking the public not to hunt or label them and their family. Therefore the confiremd will be more willing to tell the real contact history, and the tests could be used on those highly suspicious ones, not just certain circled large numbered groups. It saves more testing and medical resources for unexpected emergency in the future. I can not say absolutely Taiwan will not enter stage 2, but for now we are saving any usable resources and manpower to cope with the worst scenario once happens.
Grossly tested 29K ppl last two wks with zero positive, how many do you want exactly?
"GREAT" Job Taiwan! A new term for the statisticians: Regression correction