It has been more than 1yr already. Good to review one of the biggest lessons in 2020: a crisis like a pandemia can be managed and contained with global cooperation and difficult and hard decisions based on facts, sometimes preliminary until we get more ourworldindata.org/coronavirus
What does not mix well is: totalitarian regimes and science and openness and collaboration: bbc.com/news/world-asi…
the Chinese government is building the story that "...the virus came from somewhere - anywhere - but here" nytimes.com/interactive/20…
"Its success in eventually bringing the virus under control is now being celebrated in a giant exhibition hall, complete with models of medical workers in hazmat suits, installations of hospital beds and - everywhere you look - giant portraits of President Xi Jinping" 
"But China has produced very little evidence to show the work that's been done in its search for the source, in particular the testing of historic human samples stored by hospitals to determine where and when the virus really started spreading"
""It's a serious risk to resume life as usual without knowing where a dangerous human pathogen came from."" Alina Chan, a molecular biologist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
When the reporter asked Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Hua Chunying why China pushes for "virus came elsewhere" with no evidence, the answer was "Your question reveals your prejudice against China"
censorship and blaming outsiders instead of opening it is not the way to go: bbc.com/news/world-asi…
this is not the 1st time in history and it will not be the last, and it is only one type of global emergency that we will face and requires multi national cooperation, openness and science based fact approach goodreads.com/book/show/1130…
Same with vaccines, "The Sputnik V episode, in this light, is extremely counterproductive. It does highlight the inherent contradiction between the needs of legitimate science and the culture of totalitarian societies. The two don’t mix" sciencebasedmedicine.org/russian-and-ot…
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