Are high-performing health systems resilient against the COVID-19 epidemic?

[...]intragovernmental coordination was improved because health authorities drew on their experiences of severe acute respiratory syndrome during 2002–03 in Hong Kong and Singapore, H5N1 avian influenza in 1997 in Hong Kong, and the 2009 influenza H1N1 pandemic in all three locations. [...]all locations adapted financing measures so that all direct costs for treating patients are borne by the governments. [...]the trust of patients, health-care professionals, and society as a whole in government is of paramount importance for meeting health crises.