These are incredibly, astonishingly low numbers, even if you assume a lot of undercounting.https://twitter.com/WHOAFRO/status/1263033806132568065 …
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And yet Taiwan's, HK's and South Korea's strong response was in no small part due to having had to deal with SARS and MERS. So yes, "having faced an epidemic recently makes you better at dealing with a new one". Africans are the same as Asians, you said it better yourself.
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