He and others think there are many reasons for this: The nation’s bitter political and cultural divides. “Today, we actually do know what to do, and we’re not doing it.” “In 1918, the people fighting the flu pandemic really didn’t know what to do, because they’d had no experience with something like that,” said Joseph Gabriel, a historian of medicine at Florida State University. Why didn’t more cities adopt social-distancing earlier? Why did some open too soon? Why do some people (about 14 percent, according to a recent Gallup poll) refuse to wear masks? Why does the United States, with 4 percent of the world’s population, have 25 percent of the novel coronavirus cases? Why that lesson failed to take hold in America this time is a question academics and public-health experts are exploring in earnest.
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