It has been five years since doctors first encountered cases of Covid-19 in Wuhan, China in December 2019. The view makes it even clearer how the fight against the disease was not only a fight against a virus, but also a fight against politics. suppression of scientific evidence.
This is not a new phenomenon. In November 2002, a local outbreak of SARS began in China’s Guangdong Province the authorities initially limited it released information and downplayed the severity of the outbreak. In the following months, the virus spread unhindered in China and abroad.
China vowed to learn lessons from SARS, and implement…
