Centre on Global Health Security, Chatham House, Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, UK.
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
Epidemiol Infect. 2020 Feb 5;148:e22. doi: 10.1017/S0950268820000254.
The response to the novel coronavirus outbreak in China suggests that many of the lessons from the 2003 SARS epidemic have been implemented and the response improved as a consequence. Nevertheless some questions remain and not all lessons have been successful. The national and international response demonstrates the complex link between public health, science and politics when an outbreak threatens to impact on global economies and reputations. The unprecedented measures implemented in China are a bold attempt to control the outbreak - we need to understand their effectiveness to balance costs and benefits for similar events in the future.
中国对新型冠状病毒疫情的反应表明,许多从 2003 年 SARS 疫情中吸取的经验教训已经得到实施,应对措施因此得到了改善。然而,一些问题仍然存在,并非所有的经验教训都取得了成功。当疫情威胁到全球经济和声誉时,国家和国际的应对措施表明了公共卫生、科学和政治之间的复杂联系。中国实施的前所未有的措施是控制疫情的大胆尝试——我们需要了解这些措施的效果,以便在未来类似事件中权衡成本和收益。