Chapter 2Simple Ideas, Complex Organizations
The alarm system was ready. Scarred by the SARS epidemic that erupted in 2002, China had created an infectious disease reporting system that officials said was world‐class: fast, thorough and, just as important, immune from meddling. Hospitals could input patients' details into a computer and instantly notify government health authorities in Beijing, where officers are trained to spot and smother contagious outbreaks before they spread.It didn't work.
(Myers, 2020)
On December 30, 2019, Dr. Ai Fen, the director of an intensive care unit in Wuhan, China, broke into a cold sweat as she stared at one phrase in a lab report: “SARS coronavirus” (Kuo, 2020). SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome), ...
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