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During those early weeks, local authorities in Wuhan sought to cover up the outbreak, including by concealing information from the central government in Beijing.
Indeed, except in Spain and Bulgaria, a plurality of respondents in each country blame China for the
outbreak
of the coronavirus crisis in Europe.
It has used the world’s most decisive measures to suppress a fulminant pandemic (after the first
outbreak
in Wuhan) and may well be on the way to producing the first useful vaccine.
Many countries reacted to the
outbreak
by closing their borders and attempting to solve their own health crises first before helping others.
After all, China eventually managed to contain its
outbreak
– after a two-month lockdown – while Taiwan and Singapore never fell behind, and South Korea pulled off an amazing escape at what appeared to be a very dangerous moment.
The combination of inadequate waste management and a lack of potable water was responsible for the 2008 cholera outbreak, which claimed over 4,000 lives.
Liberia’s experience in the fight against the Ebola
outbreak
in 2014 provides crucial lessons for policymakers about how to tackle a major public health crisis with limited financial resources and organizational capabilities.
Aside from climate change, there is another parallel to the AMR crisis: the West African Ebola
outbreak
of 2014-2016.
In the event, the
outbreak
took fewer than 12,000 lives in the countries most affected by it.
Moreover, at $53 billion, the estimated cost of the Ebola
outbreak
exceeded the amount needed to fund the AMR Review’s 29 recommended interventions.
The 46 countries that have applied for debt suspension so far eventually will have to cover $5.3 billion of postponed payments, on top of $71.54 billion of pre-existing commitments; and any other debt contracted since the COVID-19
outbreak
will be added to the burden.
In practice, the core task of managing the
outbreak
fell to a single man: state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell at the National Institute of Public Health.
In societies where only some people wear masks, the share of asymptomatic carriers could be as high as 90%, as happened during one
outbreak
in Oregon.
Based on what is known, it is clear that some Chinese officials made a major error in late December and early January, when they tried to prevent disclosures of the coronavirus
outbreak
in Wuhan, even silencing health-care workers who tried to sound the alarm.
China’s leaders will have to live with these mistakes, even if they succeed in resolving the crisis and adopting adequate measures to prevent a future
outbreak.
Specifically, we should be focused on better understanding the technologies and diagnostic techniques that China used to keep its (apparent) death toll so low compared to other countries, and to restart parts of its economy within weeks of the height of the
outbreak.
My baseline projection is that the coronavirus
outbreak
will get worse before it gets better, with infections and deaths possibly peaking in the second or third week of February.
First, in contrast to the SARS outbreak, China is now in the Internet commerce age, with consumers increasingly doing their shopping online.
Similarly, many government offices and schools had planned holiday closures independently of the virus
outbreak.
The coronavirus
outbreak
is understandably causing alarm in China and elsewhere.
Moreover, digital technology can facilitate accurate analysis of the data health workers collect, thereby strengthening service delivery and
outbreak
detection.
The
outbreak
hit Japan before it began to ravage the US.
Meanwhile, Japan had its own
outbreak
relatively under control.
With the
outbreak
of the COVID-19 coronavirus, those fears have come to pass – and it is not at all clear that the EU will be able to withstand it.
And, as the millions of people currently on lockdown in Italy can attest, the COVID-19
outbreak
is a very bad time.
Another Ebola vaccine, manufactured by Johnson & Johnson, was also tested during 2019 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the second-largest
outbreak
of the disease began in August 2018.
This year started with a mysterious
outbreak
in Wuhan, China, involving individuals who have contracted a novel coronavirus.
Three years later, the Ebola
outbreak
forced Ugandans to cross borders for help.
Since the beginning of the outbreak, young entrepreneurs and SMEs have been actively involved in developing innovations to combat the potential effects of the virus on African countries.
From its persecution of ethnic and religious minorities in Xinjiang and recent move to consolidate control over Hong Kong to its initial mishandling of the COVID-19
outbreak
in Wuhan, China’s government has done little to inspire trust.
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