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-fighting-outbreaks/606976/
Ariana A. Berengaut
Penn Biden Center’s director of programs, partnerships, and strategic
planning
China’s harsh response to the coronavirus has influential admirers, but
Western nations recognize that public health fundamentally depends on public
trust.
Good public-health practice doesn’t just require control. It also requires
transparency, public trust, and collaboration—habits of mind that allow
free societies to better respond to pandemics. Democracies’ ability to cope
with COVID-19 will soon be tested; after a proliferation of cases in South
Korea, Japan, and Italy in recent days, officials are weighing how to
respond. But citizens of democratic nations can reasonably expect a higher
level of candor and accountability from their governments.
American citizens, for example, can count on the objectivity and accuracy of
the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, whose weekly morbidity
and mortality report has been a fixture of critical communication between
the government and the public in one form or another since the late 1800s.
Reliable reporting enables epidemiologists to predict a disease’s
trajectory, researchers to develop treatments and vaccines, responders to
trace transmission, and the public to protect itself.
In contrast, China actively hid the 2003 SARS outbreak from the
international community, and, especially in the initial stages of COVID-19,
it appears to have done so again. Local authorities deliberately suppressed
early reports of the unknown virus, missing an early window responders had
to stop the infectious disease before it spread. Although researchers
released the virus’s genetic sequence in record time, local officials
underreported cases, downplayed the risk of human-to-human transmission, and
detained doctors who discussed the disease. | r****d
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【在 d*********o 的大作中提到】
: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/why-democracies-are-better
: -fighting-outbreaks/606976/
: Ariana A. Berengaut
: Penn Biden Center’s director of programs, partnerships, and strategic
: planning
: China’s harsh response to the coronavirus has influential admirers, but
: Western nations recognize that public health fundamentally depends on public
: trust.
: Good public-health practice doesn’t just require control. It also requires
: transparency, public trust, and collaboration—habits of mind that allow
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：https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/why-democracies-are-
better-fighting-outbreaks/606976/
：Ariana A. Berengaut |
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