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Thomas J. Bollyky and Charles A. Kupchan are senior fellows at the Council on Foreign Relations and professors at Georgetown University. Bollyky is the author of"Plagues and the Paradox of Progress: Why the World is Getting Healthier in Worrisome Ways." Kupchan is the author of the forthcoming"Isolationism: A History of America's Efforts to Shield Itself from the World." The opinions expressed here are their own. Read more opinion at CNN.
International cooperation on the response to Covid-19 has been virtually nonexistent. Countries are mostly going their own ways: closing borders, hoarding medical equipment and scapegoating foreigners. More than a dozen nations are engaged in a biotech arms race to find a vaccine. Thomas BollykyCharles Kupchan It need not and should not be this way. Indeed, the global health emergency spawned by the spread of the coronavirus provides just the kind of wakeup call that could lead to a breakthrough on international teamwork. The threat posed by the virus knows no borders. The disease ravages countries without discrimination, kills with reckless abandon, makes daily life unrecognizable, and massively disrupts economic activity.
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