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South Korea's initial outbreak was fairly large, if I recall correctly, as it was connected with a church. This isn't some small, statistically insignificant d
by davidw 6y ago
South Korea's initial outbreak was fairly large, if I recall correctly, as it was connected with a church.
This isn't some small, statistically insignificant difference. It's a massive difference in the number of cases and deaths.
- alkonaut 6y ago300 dead is a pretty small outbreak by today’s standards I’d say. It was the second largest after Wuhan for a short while. They have 300 deaths and 10k confirmed cases, suggesting they have confirmed 10% to a third of all cases. It’s also impressive that they managed to keep the outbreak so small without extreme mitigations like other places with similar outbreaks. I don’t think that most western countries can emulate it though. Next time, perhaps (this is South Korea’s second SARS outbreak).
- davidw 6y ago> I don’t think that most western countries can emulate it though They certainly can't if they don't even... try.