Sen. Gary Peters said the Communist Party of China had used strategic thinking to combat the coronavirus and that the United States should take note of its measures.

“You got to keep people working,” the Michigan Democrat said on MSNBC’s Morning Joe when asked how the U.S. can stop a depression from happening. “We saw that in China. Outside of Hubei province, a lot of the factories continued to work. They separated their employees. They had partitions. They found ways to continue to keep some of the economy going in other parts of the country that weren’t impacted as much as it was in Hubei.