Why did SARS disappear?

[notevenat20]

Does anyone knowledgeable know why SARS disappeared and could the same thing happen with Covid?

Track and trace stopped it, combined with well enforced quarantine. They interrupted all human to human transmission.

I believe is was far less contagious than Covid-19, and the steps to eliminate it (similar to those advised now) were sufficient to stop it spreading.

It didn't 'disappear', it was eradicated by human action.

Covid19 will similarly not disappear. This has been known from the start.

All we have is human action.

• It could one day be eradicated with a vaccine
• We can pursue aggressive anti-transmission measures now
• Or we can pretend it doesn't matter anymore and count the deaths

MERS is still around. I had a terrible chest infection when I got back from Dubai in 2018 and was tested for it

SARs hasn't disappeared. It's still around, it's just not as easily spread.

SARS was easier to bring under control as it was mainly spread by people with symptoms, unlike Covid where half of transmission is driven by asymptomatic or presymptomatic people.

@IamTomHanks

SARs hasn't disappeared. It's still around, it's just not as easily spread.

I thought they had caught all the cases

It hasn't. There are sometimes small new outbreaks but, as PP said, quick action and the fact that the virus isn't quite as contagious as some others contains it. It just doesn't really make the news in western countries.

Low transmission but higher mortality figures

Less international travel meant less spread especially to countries with poor healthcare systems

No social media really - people less able to spread conspiracy theories/anti mask rhetoric

It all adds up.

www.who.int/ith/diseases/sars/en/

A few things:
Short-to-no incubation period, so people not strolling around for 2 weeks infecting others.

Because of this, you can isolate someone who has symptoms rapidly and keep them away from others

SARS has a higher mortality rate than Covid. You can't really infect many people when you're incapacitated on a hospital bed or dead.

But like PP have said I think there are small outbreaks from time to time.

Covid, although part of the same family of SARS, is a different kettle of fish.

SARS made people very ill very quickly, so people knew to isolate straight away and that helped stop the spread. It still pops up every now and then.

Hahaha 😂

The answers on this thread show that people are very quick to spout their belief as fact on social media.

OP - your answer may lie in one of the many reasons given above....or it may not

SaRS was actually very infectious, and if you did catch it you would very likely become very very ill ( require hospitalisation).. the key difference is, it was only transmissible wjen you were symptomatic.. so they installed temperature scanners everywhere ad were able to identify infections Easily.. This is unlike Covid .. where You could feel fine, but be infecting everyone around you