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Re:WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency by s1artibartfast on Thursday January 30, 2020 @10:41PM (#22198819)
Very late relative to what?

Certainly later than one would hope, but is there a real world benchmark for the handling situations like this that they fell short of? Have similar viruses crossed over in other countries and been handled better?

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Re:WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency by bryanrasmussen on Friday January 31, 2020 @08:45AM (#22201571)
International Conventions on Quarantines were basically established at a time when the most common global transmission of viruses was by sea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarantine#International_conve...
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