Coronavirus: is the response proportionate?

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Passers-by in Jiujiang, Jiangxi province, China, as the country is struck by an epidemic of a new coronavirus, on February 1, 2020. REUTERS / Thomas Peter

By: Guillaume Naudin

Nearly 500 dead, more than 24,000 confirmed cases of contamination in mainland China of almost a billion and a half inhabitants. The coronavirus epidemic does not seem to have peaked. China has taken strong steps to try to stop it.

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Towns and even entire regions are confined or subject to traffic restrictions. Measures welcomed by the World Health Organization which explains, on the other hand, that the other countries do not need to reduce their trade with China, which they do however massively, as a precautionary measure and perhaps also communication. Coronavirus: is the response proportionate? This is the question of the day.

To discuss it :
- Carine Milcent , economist, CNRS researcher, associate professor at Paris School of Economics (PSE), specialist in health systems
- Patrick Zylberman , professor emeritus of Health History at the School of Advanced Studies in Public Health (EHESP), author of the book " Microbial storms ", Gallimard editions.

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