It’s pointless trying to replicate other models as we do not know what works best in which place We are barely four months into a full-blown covid-19 pandemic and already there is premature talk about which containment model works best.
We have talked about the South Korean model (intervening fast, widespread testing), the Wuhan model (a total authoritarian lockdown), the German model (early tracing and isolation of infection clusters), the Swedish model (letting people go about their normal lives, but with care), the Singapore model (advance preparation, public education, strong isolation and hospitalization measures) and the New Zealand model (hard lockdown done early), among others.