Honestly Jim, I don't see how. The only way to be truly prepared is to have thousands of hospital beds at the ready for such a case as an epidemic, which is not what we, or anybody else, has now, or can afford.
In the event that the disease became widespread, the hospitals would be quickly filled, as they are right now in Hong Kong and Toronto, leaving the rest to their own devices.
What date do you have showing on YOUR calendar?
Do you *honestly* think we were better prepared medically and scientifically in 1950 to track down, to isolate this contagion?
You've got some 'splainin to do!