Governments have an enormous amount of work to do
IN PUBLIC HEALTH, honesty is worth a lot more than hope. It has become clear in the past week that the new viral disease, covid-19, which struck China at the start of December will spread around the world. Many governments have been signalling that they will stop the disease. Instead, they need to start preparing people for the onslaught (see article).
This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition under the headline “Going global”
From the February 29th 2020 edition
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