COVID-19 and world order
Autor
Brands, Hal
Gavin, Francis J.
Institución
Resumen
The coronavirus crisis was a shock, but should not have been a surprise. Public
health experts had been warning about the dangers of viral pandemics for
years. SARS, H1N1, Ebola, and MERS had highlighted the risks of diseases that
raced across borders and the need for effective national and global responses.
Not long before the first reported cases of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, both the
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and the Kissinger Center for Global
Affairs Senior Fellow Dr. Kathleen Hicks had organized separate exercises that
highlighted how profoundly a fast-moving virus could endanger the international
system and US national security.