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Brilliant - What to Expect from Government

The difference between a failed and successful responses to crises to pandemics depends on the government and its attitude to such issues.

In Hong Kong, the government quickly had 1m chickens killed in 1997, while the Chinese government did not report cases of SARS. The former's response stopped an epidemic, while the latter's delayed actions resulted in the spread of the disease.

The government of New Zealand outlined its own "job description" regarding health emergencies:

Create a preparedness plan
Work to keep the disease out of the country
Stamp it out if it gets into the country
Manage national response during the acute phase
Help the country recover from it

(This is very similar to the CM outline in Mitroff, 1996. The only addition at the end is "learning").

Dobson and Golden - All Eyes on China