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Chasing Life

Lessons from South Korea

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.58K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

South Korea has been widely praised as a Covid-19 success story. How did they do it? CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta talks to CNN reporter Paula Hancocks in Seoul about how South Korea has learned to live with the virus. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

As the coronavirus pandemic keeps spreading, how is it that South Korea seems to have controlled

0:07.6

it?

0:08.6

And why is the United States so far behind?

0:10.5

Test trace tree has been South Korea's mantra.

0:14.4

South Korea has been widely praised for how they handle the spread of the coronavirus.

0:19.1

As of today, there are fewer than 300 deaths.

0:22.0

That's a huge deal when you compare it to the United States where we have over 120,000

0:27.2

deaths.

0:28.4

Now even if you take the different populations into account, this means that one in every

0:33.4

100,000 people in South Korea's population died from the virus.

0:37.8

In the United States, it's 37 out of every 100,000.

0:41.8

It's even more striking when I tell you that South Korea and the United States announced

0:46.5

their first confirmed cases of COVID-19 just one day apart in January.

0:52.2

And by February, South Korea had the largest outbreak in the world outside of China.

0:57.9

In the Bible, the number of new cases were down to single digits.

1:02.1

In life in South Korea, started to go back to normal.

1:05.9

Schools even started reopening in May.

1:08.9

But then clusters of infections started to pop up again.

1:12.6

More than 100 cases were linked to a nightclub in Seoul.

1:16.2

Today, the country is bracing for a second wave of infections.

1:20.3

This, after news spikes in coronavirus cases, linked to Seoul's nightlife, which now

1:24.7

threatened the densely populated capital.

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