Could coronavirus have been avoided? Public health experts say the pandemic was predictable and could have been better contained
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Besides HIV, research into preventing the spread of new diseases has been incredibly weak in recent decades, hampering the world’s ability to fight Covid-19 ft.com/content/c0badd… 
Africa managed the pandemic relatively well, especially considering fragile public health infrastructure and the level of poverty
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One of the factors that helped African countries limit a rising death toll is the continent’s relatively young demographic ft.com/content/c0badd…
India was one of the countries that responded early to Covid-19 - but it did not get it right. With more than 100,000 deaths by October, it’s been the third-worst affected country after the US and Brazil ft.com/content/c0badd…
What made the US vulnerable to the rapid spread of coronavirus? The country lacks a national public health system that can execute and implement policy on a national level — and this is partly to blame, argue some scientists ft.com/content/c0badd…
Ultimately, to combat a pandemic, states need at least two of three qualities: leadership, governance and public solidarity. Many countries lack those qualities, argues American scientist William Haseltine ft.com/content/c0badd…
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