OPINION: Culpability, cover-ups, funding cuts: China and the US need to lift their game
culpability and cover-ups
The reality, however, is disappointing: the coronavirus has exposed the fact that neither the US nor China is sufficiently equipped for global health leadership at this time of international need. Like COVID-19, SARS was a novel coronavirus originating in China that leapt from animals to humans in the unsanitary conditions of one of China's wildlife markets.
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