Core News: On coronavirus, China and WHO show they’ve learned little after 2003 SARS outbreak


On coronavirus, China and WHO show they’ve learned little after 2003 SARS outbreak



In early 2003, the onslaught of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) out of southern China rattled the globe and quickly became the first public health crisis of the 21st century. Accusations of cover-ups orchestrated by the Chinese government, and a dangerously slow response from the World Health Organization (WHO), were ignited as panic seeped in and lives were lost. 17 years later, the very same red flags have been raised – but there has been at least one glaring difference.

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