{"id":265954,"date":"2024-12-05T12:29:32","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T12:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/05\/five-years-after-the-first-covid-19-cases-there-are-lessons-to-learn\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:10:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:10:14","slug":"five-years-after-the-first-covid-19-cases-there-are-lessons-to-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/05\/five-years-after-the-first-covid-19-cases-there-are-lessons-to-learn\/","title":{"rendered":"Five years after the first covid-19 cases, there are lessons to learn"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ad_1]
\n<\/p>\n

\n
\n
\"New<\/div>
<\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

It is now five years since clinicians in Wuhan, China, first encountered covid-19 cases in December 2019. Hindsight makes it even clearer how the battle against the disease wasn\u2019t just a fight against a virus, but also a struggle against the political suppression of scientific evidence.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t a new phenomenon. During the SARS outbreak, which started in China\u2019s Guangdong province in November 2002, local authorities initially restricted<\/a> the release of information and downplayed the severity of the outbreak. In the ensuing months, the virus spread in China and overseas unhindered.<\/p>\n

China vowed to learn lessons from SARS, and established\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

[ad_2]
\n
Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[ad_1] It is now five years since clinicians in Wuhan, China, first encountered covid-19 cases in December 2019. Hindsight makes it even clearer how the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":265955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}