When a disease first
took hold in Wuhan, the Chinese authorities did not have the luxury of
advanced notice. Their initial strategy, in the crucial early weeks of
what would become the global pandemic covid-19, was obfuscation and
censorship, which did nothing to halt the spread of the virus that
causes the disease. Only now, months after the first cases were
reported, have new transmissions slowed to close to zero—and only after
an unprecedented, draconian lockdown for hundreds of millions of
citizens.
Read more at: Uncle Sam v the coronavirus - Covid-19 is spreading rapidly in America. The country does not look ready | United States | The Economist
America, by contrast, had the
luxury of several weeks’ notice. Yet the crucial early weeks when it
could have prepared for the spread of the disease were squandered, in a
country with some of the world’s best epidemiologists and physicians. As
of March 11th, almost 1,300 Americans had been diagnosed with covid-19.
Several times more probably have the disease undetected and are
transmitting it within communities. And still the country looks behind
in its preparations for what now threatens to be a bruising pandemic.
Read more at: Uncle Sam v the coronavirus - Covid-19 is spreading rapidly in America. The country does not look ready | United States | The Economist
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