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Learning from China's Anti-Epidemic Experience
U.S. CDC looks to China to share its best practices in controlling the coronavirus outbreak
By Yu Shujun  ·  2020-03-27  ·   Source: Web Exclusive

As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a global pandemic, and China already has the situation under control, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) hopes to draw on China's practices to better help control the virus both in the United States and in other countries.

"We continue to look to China to share their best practices and the lessons learned from their outbreak so that we can better use those measures to control the outbreak in the United States, and also to learn the best practices for implementing some of these activities in other countries," said Dr. Sarah Bennett, Commander of United States Public Health Service and Head of the CDC's International Task Force for COVID-19, at a telephonic press briefing on March 26.

The coronavirus has been spreading in 175 countries, with nearly 530,000 confirmed cases as of 9 p.m. March 26, according to statistics from Johns Hopkins University's Coronavirus Resource Center. The United States, with 83,836 confirmed cases, has surpassed China and become the new epicenter of the outbreak.

Although U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo has criticized what he sees as the lack of information sharing and transparency from China, and has kept calling COVID-19 "Wuhan Virus," Bennett said that the CDC is trying to "keep up with the information that is coming out from China now that might inform the U.S. domestic response, but also our activities in other countries."

U.S. CDC staff joined the World Health Organization mission to China in February to support efforts to "better understand the severity and spread of COVID-19," Bennett added. "CDC is constantly preparing for outbreaks no matter where they start or what causes them."

Bennett also mentioned that the U.S. CDC and the Chinese Government have been collaborating for the past 30 years to address public health priorities affecting the United States, China and the world.

(Reporting from New York City)

Copyedited by Madhusudan Chaubey

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