Category: Policy

Asia vs Western response to coronavirus

Policy / Prevention / Treatment

COVID-19: “Flattening the Curve” II: Is China’s Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic the New Gold Standard?

Nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs), especially social distancing, saved lives during the 1918 Spanish Flu. A hundred years later, China, a country of 1.4 billion people from where the coronavirus originated has effectively “flattened the curve”...