> On January 20, when China had reported only a few cases of the disease, Taiwan spun up a Central Epidemic Command Center—created after SARS—to coordinate the

> On January 20, when China had reported only a few cases of the disease, Taiwan spun up a Central Epidemic Command Center—created after SARS—to coordinate the national effort. That's how governments should react. They would lock someone out of suspicion but wouldn't do anything about a new disease until it had killed someone in their own country; as it happened today in Algeria.