Following up on my post about Tomas Pueyo’s “The Hammer and the Dance,” here’s more on the measures that separate successful suppression from what we’re doing here in the United States:

What really turned the tide in Wuhan was a shift after Feb. 2 to a more aggressive and systematic quarantine regime whereby suspected or mild cases—and even healthy close contacts of confirmed cases—were sent to makeshift hospitals and temporary quarantine centers.

The tactics required turning hundreds of hotels, schools and other places into quarantine centers, as well as building two new hospitals and creating 14 temporary ones in public buildings. It also underscored the importance of coronavirus testing capacity, which local authorities say was expanded from 200 tests a day in late January to 7,000 daily by mid-February.

The West Is Misinterpreting Wuhan’s Coronavirus Progress—and Drawing the Wrong Lessons