Back in January, if someone had said that we'd soon be hip-deep in a global pandemic, it's doubtful that anyone would have believed it. The last worldwide contagion, the Spanish Flu, had taken place more than 100 years earlier. Surely we had learned a lot about containing an epidemic since then, hadn't we? Wouldn't a more advanced understanding of disease and prevention, better communications technologies, and a more comprehensive approach to tracking the spread of disease enable us to stop an epidemic in its early stages?
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