How the world can avoid screwing up the response to Covid-19 again
Even as Americans fight (and even kill) over the country’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic, there is no disagreement on one point: With 1.9 million cases and the death toll closing in on 110,000 as of June 5, for both economic and humanitarian reasons we absolutely cannot have a repeat of the tragedy that has unfolded since March. But with the current drop-off in cases, hospital admissions, and deaths likely to be followed sooner or later by local, regional, and possibly national resurgences, the implication is clear: If — or, more likely, when — those occur, we have to do better.
“I’m still getting over my shock at how badly this was handled,” said epidemiologist Stephen Morse of Columbia University, who helped create an international network to detect and monitor disease outbreaks. “After all the work and all the exercises everyone did, it’s heartbreaking to see how badly the ball was dropped.”
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