Friday, March 20, 2020

Coronavirus success vs failure: A tale of two strategies


We discuss South Korea's approach to containing COVID-19 and ask why the US response has been so slow.


Testing times: Why South Korea's COVID-19 strategy is working

The coronavirus continued to spread around the world this week and Italy's death toll surpassed that of China's. Governments called on citizens to self-isolate, closed borders, put cities into lockdown and shut all but essential businesses.
Amid the crisis, and despite a second wave of infections in Asian countries, South Korea continues to lead the way in containing the spread of COVID-19, with one of the lowest casualty rates in the world.

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