DI SPATC H E S| COVID CONSCIENTIOUSNESS
The COVID crushers
These 10 countries responded well to the pandemic — and have the numbers to prove it. By Laura Neilson Bonikowsky
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he novel coronavirus SARS-CoV2, COVID-19, has taken lives, disrupted our days, ruined businesses, spread fear and birthed a plethora of conspiracy theories. In that, it is very much like earlier pandemics. A disease becomes a pandemic when it becomes prevalent over a whole country or the world. Pandemics have included smallpox, leprosy, influenza, cholera and the plague, the deadliest pandemic in history overall.
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