WUHAN CORONAVIRUS: US health policy risk versus East Asian countries - Business Insider

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POLICY SHORTFALL: US government is less equipped to handle coronavirus and support citizens than the East Asian countries that have already been hit

national health insurance programWith it being provided by a national program, employers in Japan typically don't pay sick leave, according toThe Philippines, which reported the first coronavirus death outside of China, has paid sick leave for employees who contribute to Social Security., enacted in 1974, employees who contribute to social security for at least three months can get 90% of their wages paid during sick leave.

Sick leave can help prevent public health disasters such as the coronavirus outbreak, according to Marissa Baker, an assistant professor at the University of Washington's Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences department. Baker told Business Insider that coming into work with any illness poses a public health risk for other people in the community.

"I can't say coronavirus is being spread faster because of of presenteeism, but it is a consideration," Baker said. "Presenteeism has been shown to cause other workplace epidemics." Neither the US nor any of the Asian countries above extend federal protections for illness to nontraditional workers or small business owners, who toldthey have to choose between going into work or risk losing their jobs. Employers with more resources have been able to step into the gap, allowing employees to work from home or providing screening services at offices.

 

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Its the godamn mass of demonstrators that wants medicine, prohibation and survailance, not the authorities Report

That is an obviously criminal article that encourages civil strife and seeks to fear some hypothetical dirt Report

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