id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-031100-ih1ci5cl Overby, Madison Calling for a United Action to defeat COVID-19 2020-08-06 .txt text/plain 1456 76 53 The widespread and lingering pandemic of COVID-19 is partly due to disjointed international countermeasures and policies enforced by different countries. To effectively deal with this and future devastating pandemics, we as human beings must work together to coordinate a concerted, cooperative international policy to reduce or possibly avoid unnecessary health crisis, life and economic losses. As a result of early widespread testing and an extremely fast social distancing response put in place by the government in Korea, the basic reproductive rate was able to be kept to less than half of the international average. Challenges to the system of reserve medical supplies for public health emergencies: reflections on the outbreak of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic in China ./cache/cord-031100-ih1ci5cl.txt ./txt/cord-031100-ih1ci5cl.txt