Why South Korea’s Death Rate Is Lower Than U.S.
April 8, 2020
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as posted by the channelThe U.S. and South Korea confirmed their first coronavirus patients on the same day. Yet South Korea is containing its outbreak while cases in the U.S. have soared.
South Korea learned from its traumatic experience with its MERS outbreak in 2015. But, this time, the country has contained COVID-19 with its “Trace, Test, Treat” program (and a little help from K-pop megastars, BTS). More than 350,000 South Koreans were tested by the end of March. The country hasn’t seen the lockdowns that are in place in the rest of the world.
Despite an outbreak traced back to “patient 31” and a cluster centering around the Shincheonji Church of Jesus, South Korea managed to flatten the curve of infections. Now its policies are being praised as the gold standard of dealing with coronavirus. What can the U.S. learn from South Korea’s handling of the crisis? Is it already too late? And how are the two countries set up differently going into this unprecedented health crisis?
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