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Re:Where coronavirus hospitalizations are falling by davidw on Sunday May 17, 2020 @05:59PM (#23215885)
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.

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Re:Where coronavirus hospitalizations are falling by alkonaut on Sunday May 17, 2020 @06:45PM (#23216219)
300 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).

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Re:Where coronavirus hospitalizations are falling by davidw on Monday May 18, 2020 @12:45AM (#23218457)
> I don’t think that most western countries can emulate it though

They certainly can't if they don't even... try.

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