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Lessons from China's response to COVID-19 with Gary Liu

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The First Phase of the Discovery and Denial Phase

The first time we heard about te thete caronovirus, this mysterious respiratory dise that looked somewhat like sars, was on december thirtieth. A private message, somebody forward id and it went viral across the chinese intinet. It wasn't until several weeks later that bejing, the central government, for the first time, broke its silence. On january twentieth, a member of the party and senior government official who is now one of the central a gentleman that is actually leading te 19 task force. He visited han wards two days after he admitted human to human transmission was possible. And so of course, the course of action in china not only started

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