What Made New Zealand’s Covid-19 Response Successful

The country’s approach to most pathogens of pandemic potential is stamping them out versus containing them

Coronavirus Blog Team
Medium Coronavirus Blog
1 min readJun 4, 2020

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Here’s how New Zealand crushed the curve. Writer Keren Landman, MD, takes a close look at the country’s response and highlights what makes it unique. Here’s an excerpt:

New Zealand’s approach to most pathogens of pandemic potential is “stamping them out” rather than containing them, says John Crump, MD, a global health epidemiologist at the…

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Coronavirus Blog Team
Medium Coronavirus Blog

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