Who Was Dr. Wu Lien-teh? Google Doodle Celebrates Surgical Face Mask Pioneer
On 3/10/21 at 4:51 AM EST
Dr. Wu Lien-teh is celebrated in today s Google Doodle on what would have been his 142nd birthday. The Chinese-Malaysian epidemiologist invented a surgical face covering that is considered the precursor to the N95 mask, which is widely used today to combat the spread of COVID-19.
Wu was born on this day in 1879, to a family of Chinese immigrants in Penang, Malaya, which is modern-day Malaysia. Wu became the first student of Chinese descent to earn his MD from Cambridge University before joining China s Imperial Army Medical College as vice director in 1908.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Jan 19 2021 (IPS) - Covid-19 infection and death rates in the Western world and many developing countries in Asia and Latin America have long overtaken East Asia since the second quarter of 2020. Perhaps unsurprisingly, considering prevailing Western accounts of the Asian financial crises, there have been no serious efforts to draw policy lessons from East Asian contagion containment.
Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Lockdowns necessary?
Although most East Asian economies have successfully contained the pandemic without nationwide ‘stay in shelter lockdowns’, many governments have seen such measures as necessary. But lockdowns are blunt measures, with inevitable adverse consequences, especially for businesses and employment.
COVID-19 infection and death rates in the Western world and many developing countries in Asia and Latin America have long overtaken East Asia since th.
KUALA LUMPUR: Covid-19 infection and death rates in the Western world and many developing countries in Asia and Latin America have long overtaken East Asia since the second quarter of 2020. Perhaps unsurprisingly, considering prevailing Western accounts of the Asian financial crises, there have been no serious efforts to draw policy lessons from East Asian contagion containment.
Study on COVID-19 prevention and face masks ANI | Updated: Jan 16, 2021 22:55 IST
Washington [US], January 16 (ANI): A new research has revealed that COVID-19 transmission can be substantially reduced by reducing infected aerosol and droplet emission in conjunction with hygiene, distancing, and contact tracing, mask-wearing, particularly by infectious individuals.
Because mask-wearing is most effective when compliance is high, researchers have endorsed the use of mask requirements by governments and other organisations, according to a perspective recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) of the United States of America.
A multidisciplinary team of researchers referenced the work of Malaysian doctor Dr Wu Lien Teh who led a successful fight to suppress a plague outbreak in Harbin in northeast China in 1910, with face masks as one of his weapons.