You must concede this is pretty amazing. Epidemiological principles work, even if the pandemic starts in your own backyard with 70,000 cases. 
In response to China is not a democracy and so it works argument: No it can be done in a democracy too. S. Korea did it despite starting with 10,000 cases by April 1.
There were countries like Australia and N. Zealand that did it by preventing COVID entry (border control)
But countries like China and S. Korea did the amazing job of containing a highly transmissible respiratory pandemic that already infected thousands within their borders.
But countries like China and S. Korea did the amazing job of containing a highly transmissible respiratory pandemic that already infected thousands within their borders.
Since border control is pretty hard for big countries like the US, or in Europe, India, or South America — what we should focus for the next pandemic is how to contain a pandemic that's already inside, like China and S. Korea did.
That's real epidemiology.
That's real epidemiology.
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