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In particular: did South Korea shut down its schools?
There is "information" everywhere but no precise or exhaustive data on who did what.
The US can't follow the South Korean model because the US does not have the testing infrastructure for it: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-south-korea-scaled-co... This article presents it as dueling narratives: open versus authoritarian. This implies that, as of now, the US has some choice. But we don't. We screwed up testing when it was small and containable, and now it's not.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
A large number of available and accurate tests definitely mattered. But that is not merely enough, someone had to make decisions and coordinate the efforts. I have no idea who that was, but they did a great job.
And they have to do it EARLY. It is useless to compare or even worse suggest these solutions now.
They are coming back again ( https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/south-kore... ). Numbers are lagging indicators, and the virus grows exponentially. They are going to go up again
The US can't follow the South Korean model because the US does not have the testing infrastructure for it: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-south-korea-scaled-co... This article presents it as dueling narratives: open versus authoritarian. This implies that, as of now, the US has some choice. But we don't. We screwed up testing when it was small and containable, and now it's not.
I think the idea is that if we go in lock-down for 2 weeks, infections can get back to a manageable level - and then we can open up by testing like mad.
The general public still doesn't realize that it's going to be two months before the shelter in place and general social distancing rules start to make a difference.
Even then, after months of lockdown, it's just going to flare up again as soon as the rules are relaxed.
On a sort of related note, I presented this as an "Ask HN": Why don't [iWatch, Garmin, Fitbit] wearables have a thermometers? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22581703 I know "core temperature" is hard to take at the wrist, but I'm sure _something_ could be done. Wouldn't this benefit entire nations if the technology could be invented to have hyper-local influenza and pandemic forecasting?
I heard that South Korea had/has a very large supply of very accurate coronavirus tests. Probably lots of testing is also why their death rates are low (not only hospitalizable cases are counted). Maybe a significant motivator in these decisions is whether or not you can test a lot of people?
A large number of available and accurate tests definitely mattered. But that is not merely enough, someone had to make decisions and coordinate the efforts. I have no idea who that was, but they did a great job.
Guess which model we (the U.S.) will choose - Chinese model or S. Korean? Also, very cool chart in the article.
But didn't South Korea too have aggressive location tracking and even made those details public? Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00740-y So not exactly CCP style lockdown but not a 2019 style free society either. They did make the hard choices necessary to got it in control. But it wasn't as simple as more testing.
[1] https://milano.repubblica.it/cronaca/2020/03/18/news/coronav...