China, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan have demonstrated that, with furious efforts, the contagion can be brought to heel. But for the United States to repeat their successes will take extraordinary levels of coordination and money from the country’s leaders, and extraordinary levels of trust and cooperation from citizens. There is a chance to stop the coronavirus. “You can contain clusters,” Dr. Heymann said. “You need to identify and stop discrete outbreaks, and then do rigorous contact tracing.”

Source: International New York Times March 22, 2020 21:56 UTC