SARS – Taiwan Insight

Doing It Together: A Successful Story of Taiwan’s Face Mask Team

31 January 2022 Yi Yu Lai

Written by Frank Siedlok, Natasha Hamilton-Hart, Hsiao-Chen Shen. As the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the related news spread for the last two years, the shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) and medical equipment became apparent, causing policymakers globally to panic. Having learned from SARS in 2003, Taiwan foresaw the need to address the demand for facemasks.

TAIWAN HASN’T NEEDED THE W.H.O. TO FIGHT COVID-19; MAYBE THE W.H.O. NEEDS TAIWAN?

17 March 2020 Editor

Written by Shu-Hua Shih. Only a narrow strait lies between Taiwan and China, and cultural and economic interactions between the two are unceasing and abundant. On these grounds, many across the globe assumed that Taiwan would be the place outside China that is most seriously impacted by the COVID-19 virus.