Fauci deputy was 'very impressed' with China's COVID lockdown methods, despite 'great cost'
Isolation and contact tracing were two tools China developed and that the US ultimately adopted.
Dr. Lane was very impressed about how, from a clinical public health standpoint, the Chinese were handling the isolation, the contact tracing, the building of facilities to take care of people, and that's what I believed he meant when he said [they] were managing this in a very structured, organized way," Fauci said.
According to the transcript, Lane, who Fauci described as a "very well-known, competent person" with "extensive experience in dealing at the international level with a number of countries," reported back from the trip that China learned lessons about controlling the virus that they wanted to share.
"When we got there, the outbreak was already coming under control in China. The measures they put in place appear to be working. I think that they felt there were lessons learned they wanted to share with the rest of the world," Lane said, according to the transcript....