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nature | Epidemiologists say China’s mammoth response had one glaring flaw: it
started too late. In the initial weeks of the outbreak in December and
January, Wuhan authorities were slow to report cases of the mysterious
infection, which delayed measures to contain it, says Howard Markel, a
public-health researcher at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
“The delay of China to act is probably responsible for this world
event,” says Markel.
A model simulation1
by Lai Shengjie and Andrew Tatem, emerging-disease researchers at the
University of Southampton, UK, shows that if China had implemented its
control measures a week earlier, it could have prevented 67% of all
cases there. Implementing the measures 3 weeks earlier, from the
beginning of January, would have cut the number of infections to 5% of
the total.
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