Five years have passed since December 2019, when a clinician in Wuhan, China encountered the first case of coronavirus infection. In hindsight, it is even clearer that the fight against this disease was not just a fight against a virus, but also against political forces. Hiding scientific evidence.
This is not a new phenomenon. During the SARS outbreak, which began in China’s Guangdong province in November 2002, local authorities initially restricted the release of information and downplayed the severity of the outbreak. In the months that followed, the virus spread unhindered throughout China and abroad.
China vows to learn lessons from SARS and…
