Here's why the response to COVID-19 has been so much more severe than that of SARS.
It's not the first virus to spread rapidly from country to country, nor is it the first to be declared a pandemic — but within weeks, people have lost jobs, and even their lives as a result of COVID-19.
There are obvious similarities between COVID-19 and the first pandemic of the 21st century, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome , which reached the public consciousness in early 2003.
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