Kerala treated the pandemic primarily as a social behaviour problem rather than a medical challenge and emerged ahead As the world slowly opens up after the covid-19 pandemic closed it down, it is pertinent to ask some important questions.
Why did we reach a stage where the whole world had to be shut down? Was it because the virus was unknown? In the past, the world has faced several other unknown viruses, some of them far more deadly and more contagious than coronavirus.
But they were all contained with much less collateral damage. Where did we really go wrong? There is a belief that the outbreak could have been managed better had China disclosed the nature of the virus earlier.