Coordinated multi-sectoral efforts needed to address the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons from China and the United States
Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has caused staggering human and economic costs. We outline four key lessons learned from efforts to address the pandemic in China and the US. First, effective surveillance, reporting, and contact tracing are needed to contain an epidemic at its emergence and to mitigat...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2020-05-01
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Series: | Global Health Research and Policy |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41256-020-00150-7 |