It is officially a pandemic. An out-of-the-blue coronavirus outbreak that has forced nations into lockdown mode, wreaked pandemonium on world markets, a death toll that is skyrocketing. And while the U-S gets knocked for its lack of global leadership, the Chinese playing catch-up for their initial cover-up of the outbreak and with cases there stable, are now sending doctors to Italy. Doctors, and two-million facemasks, the kind France and Germany refused to send in the past weeks, stockpiling them instead.
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