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How South Korea Reined In The Outbreak Without Shutting Everything Down
NPR - March 26, 2020
As of this week, South Korea had just over 9,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, which puts it among the top 10 countries for total cases.
But South Korea has another distinction: Health experts are noting that recently the nation has managed to significantly slow the number of new cases. And the country appears to have reined in the outbreak without some of the strict lockdown strategies deployed elsewhere in the world.
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South Korea's foreign minister, Kang Kyung-wha, speaking to the BBC last week, said the key lessons from her country are that it developed testing for the virus even before it had a significant number of cases.
"In mid-January, our health authorities quickly conferred with the research institutions here {to develop a test}," Kang said. "And then they shared that result with the pharmaceutical companies, who then produced the reagent {chemical} and the equipment needed for the testing."
NPR - March 26, 2020
As of this week, South Korea had just over 9,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, which puts it among the top 10 countries for total cases.
But South Korea has another distinction: Health experts are noting that recently the nation has managed to significantly slow the number of new cases. And the country appears to have reined in the outbreak without some of the strict lockdown strategies deployed elsewhere in the world.
<snip>
South Korea's foreign minister, Kang Kyung-wha, speaking to the BBC last week, said the key lessons from her country are that it developed testing for the virus even before it had a significant number of cases.
"In mid-January, our health authorities quickly conferred with the research institutions here {to develop a test}," Kang said. "And then they shared that result with the pharmaceutical companies, who then produced the reagent {chemical} and the equipment needed for the testing."
Widespread testing made the difference. But here in the U.S. we're STILL hearing about how hard it is to get tested, and how long it takes for results.
It didn't have to be this way.
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Compare how South Korea responded to CV-19, to the mess trump has made of it all. (Original Post)
scarletwoman
Mar 2020
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mwooldri
(10,291 posts)1. Test and trace, test and trace.
That's how the Republic of Korea and how Singapore are doing it. Singapore probably pretty draconian. I don't know if Americans would be up to the real intrusive tracing but testing.... still needs to be ramped up.
Blues Heron
(5,898 posts)2. It's an IQ test of nations
The United States of Dumbfuckistan is going to the bottom of the class. Beam me up scotty!