Coronavirus may fundamentally reshape some areas of how we live our lives.
Pandemics
By learning from a MERS outbreak in 2015, South Korea was prepared and acted swiftly to ramp up testing when the new coronavirus appeared there. Meanwhile, the U.S., plagued by delay and dysfunction, wasted its advantage.
Iran has become the poster child of what happens when the public distrusts a government that has a track record of being untransparent from the outset of a crisis.
Are these low case numbers due to the virus not reaching or establishing infections, is it due to effective border control, or does it reflect a lack of screening and reporting?
There’s a lot of negatives to find in the response to the coronavirus outbreak, but the flaws in the response represent learning opportunities.
COVID-19 produces signs and symptoms that are similar to influenza, which makes it difficult to distinguish between the two.
Medical conspiracy theories have the power to increase distrust in medical authorities, which can impact people’s willingness to protect themselves.
In today’s China, there are few to hold the president to account.
If Beijing cannot or does not curb the transmission of the novel coronavirus in Xinjiang, it’s possible that it will evolve, as the influenza virus did in 1918, to become even more dangerous to humans.
As the new coronavirus, called 2019-nCoV, spreads rapidly around the globe, the international community is scrambling to keep up. Scientists…