Science Magazine– March 31, 2020. “India is probably the first large developing country and democracy into which this pandemic will arrive,” says Ramanan Laxminarayan, founder and director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy. “Many of the advantages of the Chinese [state] control and of having the health systems of Europe or the U.S. are not available to India,” says Laxminarayan, who is advising the Indian government. “There will have to be a uniquely Indian response to COVID-19.”