Coronavirus tests state-run, single-payer health systems
, according to the most recent forecasts. Vaccines and targeted antiviral medicines are not yet available.
Founded after the Second World War, Britain’s taxpayer-funded National Health Service is free at the point of use for everyone in the country. It’s hard to overestimate just how proud Britons — across party lines — are of their health service. One indication: The NHS was celebrated in the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony with nurses and children dancing on hospital beds.
The top-down structure of the system can “sometimes be irritating, because you want decisions taken at a local level,” Buckingham said. But for a major public health threat, “we have a very clear emergency planning structure. It means everybody knows what their responsibilities are and what the command and control structure is.
Canada has completed more than 17,000 tests since the outbreak began. As of Saturday night, 198 people had tested positive, including Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, the wife of the prime minister, who may have been exposed on a trip to London.Canadian hospitals have been on high alert for the virus since the first reports of the disease emerged from China.
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