Welcome to Axis Perron, where we normally take just 10 minutes to get you smarter on the collision of tech, business, and politics.

But today we are doing a special three-part series of shorter episodes on the coronavirus pandemic, which is changing our politics, our economy, and our way of life.

I'm Danper Mack. And this episode in particular is about what we can learn from other countries.

As of Thursday morning, America had the most coronavirus cases in the world, with Johns Hopkins

reporting at least 82,000 infections and over 1,000 deaths.

That's more than China, Italy or Spain, let alone countries that handled things much better,

like South

Korea and Singapore.

So to dig into what we do next, we are joined by Axios Healthcare Editor Sam Baker.

And so, Sam, let's start by looking at a couple of those countries like South Korea and

Singapore.

Everyone feels handled things well.

From your perspective, is it too late to emulate them?

Yeah, it is, which is sort of a bummer.

What they did was not necessarily all that groundbreaking.

They just sort of followed the playbook of what you're supposed to do when a new infection reaches your shores.

The U.S. didn't.

But that playbook just relies so much on early action, getting things right at the beginning.

That's why they have been

able to see their number of new cases level loss while ours continues to skyrocket.

There's been a lot of talk about the role of technology in this. We've seen in Hong Kong.

We certainly saw in Singapore, things like kind of geo-tracking, putting apps on phones that

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