South Korea’s Coronavirus Fight Drags On
Here is the latest on the coronavirus spread in South Korea:
South Korea’s virus fight is dragging on, with a steady rise in new virus cases and untraceable infections, along with a spike in imported cases. Health authorities warned that another possible wave of infections and “hidden” virus spreaders across the country may strain the country’s containment efforts.
The country added 49 new cases on Friday, including 32 local infections, raising the total caseload to 12,306, according to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC).
The number of new daily COVID-19 cases marks a slight slowdown from a three-week high of 59 a day earlier.
Of the locally transmitted cases, 26 were reported in the densely populated Seoul and nearby metropolitan areas, around half of the country’s 50-million population lives.
Yonhap
You can read more at the link, but something never mentioned in these articles is if the infection level is such that the hospitals can’t keep up. It appears that the hospitals are doing fine considering the death toll right now is 280 people:
Health authorities said that the country may roll back to strict distancing in daily life if the number of new cases falls back to single digits.
There were no additional deaths, keeping the total death toll to 280.
The fatality rate came to 2.27 percent, but it shot up to 25.65 percent for those aged 80 and above.
Health authorities said it is worrisome that South Korea has been experiencing a hike in the portion of elderly among new patients.
Patients aged 50 and above accounted for a whopping 55 percent of new infections in the first two weeks of June, marking a drastic rise from only 12 percent posted a month earlier.
It seems to me this will just be the new normal until herd immunity happens and the virus runs its course. The key will be making sure the hospitals are not overwhelmed so the most critical patients can be treated which the numbers are showing South Korea is doing a great job of.
Compare it with Influenza A, Influenza B, HIV/AIDS, and Fan Death or it’s an irrelevant dataset.
How many died in auto accidents during this same time? Just being used to control the people now.
As of June 20:
The number of deaths due to COVID for South Korea = 280
The number of deaths due to COVID for United States = 122,000
As reliable as Stalin’s one-legged boy Walter Duranty, Xi’s local correspondent refuses to answer any questions.
How many Koreans died of Influenza A, Influenza B, HIV/AIDS, and Fan Death during this time?
Isolated data points provide no actionable intelligence.
Speaking of the Wuhan Lung Pox, it had already spread to Italy by December, so China is looking worse and worse…
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2020/06/19/new-data-from-italy-could-change-the-entire-covid-19-timeline/
I understand what most countries are trying to do: slow the spread so hospitals are not overwhelmed like NYC & Italy. What is not sustainable is telling the public that lockdowns cannot be lifted until we find a vaccine. Historically vaccines take years and lots of mistakes to develop, unless your name is Jenner and you notice milkmaids. I have stated publicly that any vaccine developed in the next 12-18 months will not go in my body. Uncle Sam used me as a test subject enough when I was younger…
2ID Doc, lockdowns are done in countries like the United States and China where democracy is compromised. South Korea never lockdowned the country.
@Korean Man, I don’t think you are going to get much of a counterargument that South Korea has handled the pandemic lot more competently than what happened back in the U.S.
True. All the lockdowns did was wreck our economy.
Yeah comparing a country the size of the state of Indiana is a valid comparison. Idiots.