Daniel Hale William openned the firat interracial staff hospital. He was the first one in performing an operation on a human heart. He succeded even when there were no blood transfusions, antibiotics or x-rays. He was able to change tactics if he saw that he needed to do that. For example, he was one of the first ones in using the catgun.
A command economy could probably solve it faster.
This is because the government runs the economy in a command system and not the market. The government could in such a case focus all its resources on solving the crisis unlike the free market economy where people dealing with economy might be disinterested since it wouldn't affect their businesses or anything similar.
I think it’s the first one.
