The time for containment is over
Mar 06, 2020
3 minutes
By Alice Park
THERE COMES A POINT IN the unfolding of every epidemic when public-health officials acknowledge that despite their best efforts, an invisible microbial foe has managed to outwit them. That time has come. As cases of COVID-19 began to wane in early March in China, there was a surge in new infections around the globe, from Iran to Italy, South Korea to the U.S.
Deaths also rose—the U.S. recorded
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