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China Created a Fail-Safe System to Track Contagions. It Failed.

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China Created a Fail-Safe System to Track Contagions. It Failed.

Steven Lee Myers/Mar 29, 2020/49 views/1 comments

After SARS, Chinese health officials built an infectious disease reporting system to evade political meddling. But when the coronavirus emerged, so did fears of...