What’s Behind South Korea’s COVID-19 Exceptionalism?

Posted on AllSides May 6th, 2020
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coronavirus, coronavirus response, coronavirus deaths, South Korea, United States
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Seven weeks ago, South Korea and the U.S. had the same number of virus deaths. Today, South Korea has fewer than 300, and the U.S. has more than 70,000.

On February 16, a Sunday, a 61-year-old woman with a fever entered the Shincheonji Church of Jesus in Daegu, South Korea. She touched her finger to a digital scanner. She passed through a pair of glass doors and proceeded downstairs, to the prayer hall, where she sat with approximately 1,000 other worshippers in a large windowless room. Hours later, she exited...

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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/whats-south-koreas-secret/611215/

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