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bobnicewander

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Mon Oct 12, 2020, 09:59 AM Oct 2020

GOP Leadership vs South Korean Leadership

Good Leadership vs Bad Leadership

The United states and South Korea both discovered their first Corona Virus cases on January 20, 2020, but how the 2 countries fared under their leadership's policies since then is a damning testimony to their leadership's decisions.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200820102431.htm
Date: August 20, 2020

Source: Florida Atlantic University

COVID-19: How South Korea prevailed while the United States failed

"In a commentary published ahead of print in The American Journal of Medicine, researchers from Florida Atlantic University's Schmidt College of Medicine and a collaborator, compare responses to the pandemic from two democratic republics: South Korea and the U.S., demonstrating stark differences in public health strategies, which have led to alarming differences in cases and deaths from COVID-19. After adjusting for the 6.5 fold differences in populations, the U.S. has suffered 47 times more cases and 79 times more deaths than South Korea."

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6924e2.htm

"The first laboratory-confirmed case of COVID-19 in the United States was confirmed on January 20, 2020, and reported to CDC on January 22, 2020."

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/10/20-1315_article

Contact Tracing during Coronavirus Disease Outbreak, South Korea, 2020

"The first case of COVID-19 was identified on January 20, 2020; ..."



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