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The philippine government s COVID-19 response has been reactive, ad hoc and inadequate. While quarantine and social distancing measures may have slowed down the spread of new cases of SARS-CoV2 infections, the government has been slow to scale up the capacity of the healthcare system to test, trace and treat COVID-19 patients as well as attend to the non-COVID related health needs of the population. The gaps and failings in the government s COVID-19 response can not merely be attributed to poor leadership or the lack of experience in dealing with a pandemic of this scale.
Symptoms of Deeper Malaise in the Philippines Health System 3 Indeed, no less than 11 major infectious-disease outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics occurred somewhere on the planet between 2002 through 2015, providing the world a preview of 2020. For many years now, epidemiologists have been on the lookout for when, not if, a global
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