《LANCET,3月2日,COVID-19 and the anti-lessons of history》

  • 来源专题:COVID-19科研动态监测
  • 编译者: zhangmin
  • 发布时间:2020-03-04
  • COVID-19 and the anti-lessons of history

    Robert Peckham

    Published:March 02, 2020DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30468-2

    As the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China's Hubei province continues and new cases of the disease increase globally, there is pressure on historians to show the value of history for policy. How can the past assist in the real-time management of the crisis? What insights can be gleaned from the ongoing epidemic for future disease preparedness and prevention? Lurking in the background of these interrogatives is a more or less explicit accusation: why haven't past lessons been learned? The gist of some commentaries seems to be: “there is almost nothing surprising about this pandemic”.

  • 原文来源:https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30468-2/fulltext
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