Wilmot James in the New York Times
‘Pre-existing weaknesses’ hindered the U.S. pandemic response, researchers find.
Wilmot James, Senior Research Scholar at ISERP and Interim Chair of the Center for Pandemic Research, was quoted in the New York Times.
How well a country has responded to Covid-19 is not explained by the country’s economic power or scientific capacity, but by how its people relate to one another and their government, according to preliminary findings of a research study.
... Another team, studying five countries in Africa, found that national leaders there had quickly recognized the threat from the virus and imposed measures to limit its importation and spread. “That managed to at least curtail the outbreak,” said Wilmot James, a Columbia University research scholar who was one of the study’s principal investigators, “but the impacts on the economies were quite devastating.”
Read the referenced ISERP study on COVID19 response in Africa, co-authored by Wilmot James, here.
