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Skip the Coronavirus Denial and Stop the Dying
Five stages of epidemic control show how a society like Taiwan survives this viral outbreak. Others must do the same.
What Taiwan learned: Quickly admit the problem; then you can deal with it.
Photographer: Sam Yeh/AFP/Getty Images
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In late May 2003, I had to go to a funeral.
The deceased was the head nurse at a hospital in Taiwan. She died from severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS. I’d never met her. I was there in my capacity as a reporter, trying to observe, to learn, to stay out of the way.