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> The world was shocked when they started to build the new hospitals that the numbers didn’t seem to justify.

Only those parts of the world who don't understand exponential growth.

You should brush up.

I understand exponential growth thanks. If China was able to take the measures they did on January 23 with only 500 cases in wuhan, nothing amiss in the rest of the world, based on their understanding of exponential growth of the disease that is impressive. Every other government had China as a warning and all of them except three have waited to react.

The governments that have acted effectively have all had prior experience with SARS.

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