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by carlivar 1919 days ago
America should have done the South Korea playbook. Technology based, aggressive testing and contact tracing via an intense public-private partnership.
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That was only theoretically possible. After the avian flu outbreak, South Korea had implemented and trained the system you have observed. Just the year before they did an exercise on a hypothetical coronavirus outbreak. So, the US could not catch up years of preparation in matter of weeks.