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Coronavirus: What We Need Is Rational Prep, Not Irrational Panic

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Coronavirus: What We Need Is Rational Prep, Not Irrational Panic
A man buys water, food, and toilet paper at a store in Los Angeles on Feb. 29, 2020. Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images
Shawn Whatley, MD
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As COVID-19 sweeps the globe, many of us wrestle with whether to cancel our trips to Florida or cruises in the Caribbean. First-world problems to be sure. Having food, water, and sanitation puts those of us in the West in a much better position to fend off any pandemic, real or not.

Shawn Whatley, MD
Shawn Whatley, MD
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Shawn Whatley is a practicing physician, author of “When Politics Comes Before Patients: Why and How Canadian Medicare is Failing,” and a senior fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. He is also a past president of the Ontario Medical Association.
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