The pandemic only lasted 103 in New Zealand and it has now gone 100 days since without a single new case.
This paragraph is the key.
Science-based
Empathic leadership
United
Public Confidence
Adherence to burdensome-control measures
New Zealand is not alone in achieving elimination.
In this new @TheLancetInfDis essay, @anitah2 and Raina Macintyre discuss the prospects and whether it is possible more broadly
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30633-2/fulltext @sphcmunsw
To the responders who claim it's just that New Zealand is an island. Not true.
Estonia isn't. Thailand isn't. Uruguay isn't.
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