Coronavirus lessons learned in Asia show US is at risk of a resurgence as states reopen businesses
The tulips were blooming in Seoul and Dr. Jerome Kim was strolling in his government-issued KF-94 mask with his wife when he got a text message alerting him to a confirmed coronavirus infection in his neighborhood.
It was early April and South Korea made headlines around the world for effectively containing the first major Covid-19 outbreak outside of China by testing broadly throughout the population and tracing contacts of infected individuals. But now students were returning from abroad and bringing the virus with them.
Kim, who serves as the Director-General of the International Vaccine Institute, clicked on the alert on his phone and it directed him to the municipal site, which detailed the infected individual's whereabouts over the past several days.
The individual, who was anonymous, had visited a local supermarket on a recent Saturday between 10 a.m. and 10:15 a.m. to buy chilies, which was confirmed with CCTV footage and credit card transaction data, Kim recalled.
"My wife and I kind of looked at each other and said, 'well, we were there ... but on Sunday,'" he said with a laugh. "It's one of those balances of privacy versus public good, but it's a decision governments need to make, and in South Korea I think it's made all the difference."
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Trump would rather sacrifice the vulnerable.