A woman wears a mask as she walks past a health warning poster at hospital, in Hong Kong January 21, 2020. — Reuters pic
Unlike bacterial infections, which can be treated by antibiotics, viruses respond to very few treatments, according to Sanjaya Senanayake, associate professor of medicine at The Australian National University. The Chinese government took months to report SARS and initially denied World Health Organisation experts any access.
Kamradt-Scott said it was incumbent on authorities to effectively “counter conspiracy theories and rumours”. Vignaud said this includes economic, political and social conditions, as well as those diseases perceived to be the most dangerous.
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