Building Resilience through a whole-of-society approach: COVID-19 pandemic response in East Asia

During the crisis, East Asian countries and regions, except China, were able to provide effective operational knowledge to the public, reduce national vulnerabilities, and adjust healthcare capacity and resources in ways that created public trust and a sense of legitimacy in the competency of the governments’ strategies. [...] China, Europe, and the United States: spread of lockdowns and lack of public trust As of 2 October 2022, the United States and the U. [...] The ability to effectively control the virus during the early stages of the outbreak created a sense of trust in government public health provisions, which in the eyes of citizens throughout the pandemic helped to maintain a sense of legitimacy in government institutions vis-a-vis those public health measures. [...] The initial concept of Japan’s strategy was to conduct intensive retrospective investigations on clusters of COVID-19 cases to identify the original source(s) of infection in the cluster and understand the dynamics of spread within it as well as external to it. [...] Conclusion This paper has demonstrated that East Asian countries and regions were able to provide effective operational knowledge to the public, reduce national vulnerabilities, and adjust healthcare capacity and resources in ways that created public trust and a sense of legitimacy in the competency of the governments’ strategies.