Organizational Response to COVID-19 Crisis: Reflections on the Chinese Bureaucracy and Its Resilience

[...]information on coronavirus was recognized, identified, and the corresponding mechanism of information gathering and reporting activated much earlier than it was made public; but such information was ignored and suppressed in the bureaucratic machine. [...]most governments failed at their early phases, let alone the Chinese governments that withstood the initial outbreak. [...]eight individuals, among them medical professionals, were forced to admit their wrongdoing in ‘spreading rumors’ and they were reprimanded on national television. [...]information on the outbreak of COVID-19 was suppressed for several weeks before it was made public on January 20.