Outbreak
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COVID-19 is the fourth major virus
outbreak
since 2000.
(The death toll from the West African Ebola
outbreak
in 2014-2015 was far higher.)
The
outbreak
is costing the global shipping industry $350 million per week, primarily owing to the slowdown in Chinese goods manufacturing.
Events such as the COVID-19
outbreak
should not be occasions for politicized responses: A sense of shared humanity must take precedence over politics when a disease threatens to become a pandemic.
Governments and international organizations therefore need to implement recovery measures that have the least negative economic impact, and support the poorer citizens and small firms that ultimately will be most affected by any
outbreak.
At the same time, the May 24 Baoshang Bank failure – a first for China in about 20 years – has triggered a worrisome
outbreak
of counterparty risk contagion.
As the
outbreak
in Europe worsened, nine heads of eurozone governments called for the issuance of “coronabonds” to help spread more evenly across Europe the additional debt governments will incur as they struggle to replace disappearing private incomes.
Iran accounts for just 1.1% of the world’s population but an astounding 11.2% of COVID-19 deaths, while Venezuela appears to be on the verge of a massive outbreak, judging from the rapid spread of the disease since the first diagnosis in that country 12 days ago.
Before dying of COVID-19, Li Wenliang, the Wuhan-based physician who was silenced after trying to sound the alarm about the coronavirus outbreak, pointed out that “a healthy society should not have just one voice.”
Like the Japan bashing of the 1980s, today’s
outbreak
of China bashing has been conveniently excised from America’s broader macroeconomic context.
China has blocked any significant role for the UN’s executive body lest it be criticized for its initial mishandling of the
outbreak
and be held responsible for the consequences.
The US is so unequal, politically divided, and badly governed under Trump that it has actually given up on any coherent national strategy to control the
outbreak.
China is rather unequal (with a Gini score of 38.5), but its national and provincial governments adopted rigorous control measures after the initial Wuhan outbreak, essentially suppressing the virus.
The recent
outbreak
in Beijing, after weeks of zero confirmed new cases, resulted in renewed lockdowns and massive testing.
Some focus their anger on China’s initial lack of transparency about the
outbreak.
Following the SARS
outbreak
China prohibited the breeding, transport, and sale of civets and other wild animals, but the ban was lifted six months later.
Before the coronavirus outbreak, food insecurity was already a severe problem.
The East-West Divide in COVID-19 ControlNEW YORK – East Asian countries are outperforming the United States and Europe in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic, despite the fact that the
outbreak
began in China, to which the rest of East Asia is very closely bound by trade and travel.
For starters, the East Asian countries were far better prepared for a new disease
outbreak.
The 2003 SARS
outbreak
was a wake-up call, and frequent waves of dengue fever in several East Asian countries reinforced the message.
Recent estimates suggest that 430,000 people arrived in the US from China after the
outbreak
was disclosed, including around 40,000 after Trump’s so-called travel ban.
China’s
outbreak
was the worst in East Asia, and, in a way, the most instructive for the US and Europe.
US National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien has said that China’s initial cover-up “probably cost the world community two months to respond,” exacerbating the global
outbreak.
Taiwan, learning from its experience with SARS, instituted preventive measures, including flight inspections, before China’s leaders had even acknowledged the
outbreak.
In fact, China has had no choice but to fall behind in producing and exporting APIs since the
outbreak
– a development that has constrained global supply and driven up the prices of vital medicines.
Some countries, such as Israel, were effective at dealing with the initial outbreak, only to fall prey to a larger second peak.
The Fiscal Fight Against COVID-19TOKYO – As the new COVID-19 coronavirus continues to spread rapidly outside China, medical professionals and policymakers around the world are fighting to contain the
outbreak.
The Chinese authorities already have loosened monetary policy in response to the outbreak, an understandable move in view of the virus’s serious effect on key economic sectors, notably manufacturing and transport.
Any answer to that question will be tentative, because there is much that we still don’t know about COVID-19 or the early months of the
outbreak.
Finally, on December 31, 2019, China alerted the WHO of a potential
outbreak.
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