I think China has indeed handled it really well and I doubt if many other countries would have been so effective. On Dec 31, the first case reported and the vir

I think China has indeed handled it really well and I doubt if many other countries would have been so effective. On Dec 31, the first case reported and the virus didn't even have a name. The first death didn't even occur until Jan 10. By Jan 22, the death toll was still under 20 and China was able to seal off city 3 times larger than LA the next day. They did create two 1000 bed hospital is literally a weekend from scratch. At this point, virus DNA was already analyzed and possible medicine already underway testing. BioArxiv had over 30 papers posted by this date mostly from Chinese scientists. In most other countries, I think such speedy research funding, rapid construction and drastic measures would have been challenged in courts or would have been far slower passing through the long chains of approvals or simply delayed due to critics from political oppositions.