[15] Following the outbreak, Su began annual rehearsals of a possible pandemic from China after SARS killed over 20 percent of people infected by it in Taiwan.
[19] He noted the drastically different mood in Taiwan regarding the pandemic, compared with the general sense of confusion and panic present in Europe and the United States.
[20] In the early days of the coronavirus outbreak, Su urged Taiwan's health authorities to send an investigation team to Wuhan.
[21] When members of the Australian media went to Taiwan and interviewed Su, he told them not to trust the accuracy of data from China or the World Health Organization (WHO).
[26] He expressed concerns about the potential for viruses to escape as a result of human error from research laboratories, including a facility in Taiwan.