Experts say the reforms do not fix all the flaws exposed by the new coronavirus and do not tackle the issues of secrecy and censorship that many experts believe turned an isolated outbreak in Wuhan into a pandemic.
SHANGHAI - China's latest plans to overhaul its disease control system may not improve its ability to handle future virus outbreaks, according to some experts inside and outside the country.
Li, a doctor in Wuhan, was reprimanded by police for “spreading rumours” when he tried to raise the alarm about the disease, which he later died from. The reforms, which are so far only draft guidelines with no details on timelines or funding, were met with scepticism overseas. Beijing locked down Wuhan on Jan. 23, but one study from Britain's University of Southampton suggested it could have cut infections by as much as 95% if it had done so two weeks earlier.
He said the CDCs were strengthened after the SARS outbreak of 2002-2003, but local government complacency had marginalized them over time:"After 17 years, everyone seems to have felt at ease, and some of the functions of the CDC were diluted."
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