New Virus Cases Double in S. Korea, Biggest Spike in 53 Days

[still_one]

South Korea reported its biggest spike in new coronavirus cases in nearly two months, raising fears of a second wave of infections that challenges its highly touted testing and contact tracing strategy to stem the pandemic.

The country on Thursday reported 79 new cases, about double the new infections reported a day earlier and marked the highest number of cases since April 5 when it registered 81. The total number of confirmed cases reached 11,344, according to the Korea Centers for Disease Control & Prevention.

In the wake of the new cluster of infections, the South Korean government said it was temporarily closing public museums, parks and galleries in the Seoul metropolitan area and may consider stronger social distancing measures if the situation worsens. There will be no change to scheduled plans for schools to reopen.

The latest surge came as health authorities were investigating a new outbreak at a distribution center for Softbank-backed Coupang Corp., an e-commerce company known for its “rocket delivery” service, which has increased in popularity as more Koreans have turned to online shopping in the wake of pandemic.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-28/new-virus-cases-double-in-south-korea-biggest-spike-in-53-days

[Voltaire2]

1. They do serious test trace quarantine and

they are still having outbreaks. We are doing none of that. We are fucked.

[Celerity]

6. Trump is going to start saying that the wearing of masks and lockdowns are why people die and will

blame it ALL, every death, on Democrats and minorities. Ten of millions of his thugs will lap it up like manna.

[EndlessWire]

2. Another disease name to learn.

MIS-C. The C stands for Children.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/south-korea-mis-c-coronavirus-children-illness-new-covid-cluster-anxiety-schools-reopen/

This new disease is supposed to be related to CV19, and it appears to be spreading globally as well. We might as look at this as two diseases that are now both pandemic.

We have got some work to do.

[Silent3]

3. While it's good to monitor this and react quickly, 79 new cases out of 50M+ people...

...is something that's hard to call a "spike". That's down in the statistical noise floor for a entire country with a sizeable population.

The US had 26,158 new cases on May 26, 2020. That's about 75 new cases per million people, whereas South Korea's 79 cases in one day is about 1.5 new cases per million.

So we've got 50 times the rate of new cases per capita on a typical recent day than South Korea had during this "spike".

[SunSeeker]

5. I see you can do math.

I had idea how few could, until this pandemic.

[Celerity]

7. +100000

[SunSeeker]

4. They are finding these clusters and dealing with them. We're not.

We have no national strategy like they have for testing, contact tracing, and quarantine of the ill. 79 cases could easily disappear under our nonexistent radar until was a case spike in the thousands.

[MyOwnPeace]

8. No, we send pictures

of party-going people on boats and in pools and say, "Hey, look out!!!!"


One good thing though: We didn't have to see a picture of "Dear Leader" in a bathing suit!