Five years after the first cases of coronavirus, there are still lessons to be learned

It has now been five years since doctors in Wuhan, China, first encountered COVID-19 cases in December 2019. Hindsight shows how the fight against the disease was not just a fight against the virus, but also a fight against politics. Suppression of scientific evidence.

This is not a new phenomenon. During the SARS outbreak, which began in Guangdong Province of China in November 2002, it was localized Powers are initially restricted Disseminate information and reduce the risk of the disease outbreak. In the following months, the virus spread unhindered in China and beyond.

China pledged to learn lessons from SARS, and established…