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Former CDC director: Covid-19 is different from flu and we must respond differently

Prevent Epidemics March 14, 2020

There are similarities and differences between Covid-19 and the flu, but we know much less about the novel coronavirus. As we look at what happened in China, and what’s happening now in Italy, it’s easy to adopt a fatalistic attitude that “there’s nothing we can do, we’re all going to get it anyway.”