How the lessons of previous epidemics helped successful countries fight covid-19

Affiliations

• ¹ Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
• ² Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs, Saudi Arabia.
• ³ King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
• ⁴ Last Mile Health, Boston. MA, USA.
• ⁵ Department of Medical Affairs and Planning, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan.
• ⁶ National Yang-Ming University Institute of Hospital and Health Care Administration, Taiwan.
• ⁷ University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
• ⁸ The BMJ, London, UK mlooi@bmj.com.
• ⁹ Bioinformatics Institute, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore.