While travel bans may mitigate the situation temporarily they cannot stop the inevitable, their sole purpose is to improve the optics.I've been trying to avoid this thread and any others that deal with the outbreak, and will probably regret stepping in, but...
The month old article you referenced might as well be 100 years old. Things have been changing at a dizzying pace, and we still don't know what we don't know.
It's not an "optics" problem. It's a math problem.
If the spread of the disease isn't slowed down there will be more sick people than there are ventilators and providers. Our healthcare system runs at close to capacity as it is. The virus is going to spread until a vaccine is developed, but if it spreads slower, hopefully we won't be putting healthcare professionals in the position of having to make decisions about who gets treatment and who gets left to die in their home.