US had prepared for pandemic

deactivated-5f9e3c6a83e51 · 2020-04-05 11:34:06

Surprising who was best preparedUnfortunately, like anything else, when no immediate threat was present, it was hard to justify the continued spending and measures. However, I hope that going forward, the culture changes. Taiwan got hit very hard by SARS. They struggled to manage it and had a large number of cases and deaths from it. But that challenge, led to them changing quite a few things and now they likely have the best response in the world to this virus. They've been screening all visitors to the country well before covid 19 hit and they have made sure that essential manufacturing of medical supplies was not outsourced to China, but rather they have their own production capacity. Currently, they're making 10 million masks a day. Hopefully, both the US and Europe can learn from this.