How China learned from its COVID response to quickly stamp out its latest outbreak

by Michael Toole, The Conversation Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Cases of COVID-19 are surging around the world, but the course of the pandemic varies widely country to country. To provide you with a global view as we approach a year and a half since the official declaration of the pandemic, The Conversation editors from around the world commissioned articles looking at specific countries and where they are now in combating the pandemic. Here, Mike Toole, Professor of International Health at the Burnet Institute, writes about how China went from pandemic epicenter with a dark history of silencing those who spoke…