Some Countries Have Brought New Cases Down To Nearly Zero. How'd They Do It?

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Some countries have almost brought new coronavirus case numbers down to zero. Here's how: 🇳🇿 A four-stage lockdown system 🇰🇷 An apolitical, testing-focused approach 🇩🇪 A speech convincing citizens to help fight the outbreak

Taiwan has reported only one case in more than the past three weeks. The situation is similar in Vietnam. As the number of coronavirus cases continues to grow globally, there are places that have managed to successfully control COVID-19.Perhaps the greatest success story is New Zealand, which has stopped local transmission and has a plan to completely eliminate the virus from its territory., an associate professor of microbiology in New Zealand.

Jacinda Ardern, the prime minister of New Zealand, briefs the media on COVID-19. She did not refer to the coronavirus as an invisible enemy but issued a call for New Zealanders to protect each other from the health threat."Our prime minister made the decision that she did not want what was happening in Italy to happen in New Zealand," Wiles says. In mid-March as cases were exploding in Italy and Spain, Ardern ordered anyone entering New Zealand into quarantine.

Wiles at the University of Auckland says that the prime minister did something quite interesting:"Which was that unlike many other countries, she never put us on a war footing."Instead she called on New Zealanders to confront this crisis by protecting their fellow citizens. For example, South Korea has reported more than 11,000 cases. In late February and early March, South Korea was reporting about 750 new cases a day. Now the country is down to on average just a few dozen per day., the head of Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University, says the most successful countries all did some things similar to New Zealand.

"In those countries in Asia, absolutely, they believe that the state, the central government, is responsible for intervening and then solving this problem," Shin says. Merkel added that since the end of World War II and national reunification, there has been no other challenge that depends as strongly on Germans working together.

 

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Thanks for the kudos - but in terms of pandemic response GER really doesn’t play in the same league as KOR.

ronnychieng 🇺🇸GOLF🙃

Trump : “The 15 people...within a couple days is going to be down to close to zero.” Ardern : “Unlike so many other gravely inundated countries, we have a window of opportunity to stay home, break the chain of transmission & save lives.” Guess which was more effective?

How many countries had success talking about how great the economy used to be every day for a month, blaming China and kept pushing back goal posts back and back and back and back and back and back and back and back and back and back and back and takes no responsibility at all?

New Zealand stops all foreigners from coming in and the media has no problem....But when the US does it....

ronnychieng Please welcome the United States of America to the FOURTH WORLD! So very MAGA !!

ronnychieng If the USA had a more socialist economy our new cases would be low too but that wasn’t about to happen under Trump.

Germans all about them convincing speeches. Why does this sound familiar 🤔

Korean approach is the best. It has to be apolitical.

Well the Trumpers like to gamble! Buying a lottery ticket has less change of a winning combinations as dying of covid 19 after being tested positive. Your chance of dying is right now at 5.85% or for easy trump language almost 6 out of one hundred.

It you don't test them you don't know . Most countries that are small like a state just send them home and bury or burn them when necessary.

StMarkelx That takes leadership, and informed voters.

Unfortunately American is not one of them, it’s kind of sad and heartbroken that the most richest nations on earth can not successfully battle this pandemic, like all these four nations did.

New Zealand is bullshit an island country of 5 million killed their economy have no idea how to start letting people in again

Speech😂. Yeah. 'Cause Americans will listen to a speech. Germans must be so nice

They probably didn't do this!

Trump is not President there

Oh, you mean management and cooperation. Right, what we are lacking.

From the graphs they are looking way better then average Way better than your home state of Massachusetts which while better than NY, is very, very, very bad If most in Arkansas hunker down and follow best practices they should weather this ok Mass in Red Arkansas in Green

prologuepast Germany didn't just use 'a speech,' they used extensive testing and tracing.

The USA ranks somewhere around 25th on the list of countries with the best math and science scores. We’re behind countries like 🇳🇿, 🇰🇷, 🇩🇪

We are some countries and our president will never do the right thing. 100k and counting.

So basically, by not having Republicans

Read a tweet hits different when you're listing to a Tiny_desk_concert on YouTube.

genecollier But what about not wearing masks because that’s for sheep and liberals and blaming democrat governors! I hear that’s the way to go?

Retweeting

DrJeffShima It's more accurate to depict daily cases per capita

A speech? Really. A speech

Shhhhhhhh. I was hoping to go to Europe on the company dime this year. Looks like I’m spending most of my time in Arkansas and Arizona.

0.26% fatality rate

New Zealand - a collection of Islands, get the foreigners to leave Vietnam - No Chinese allowed sometime in early February My wife was there in late Feb/ early March, no Chinese folks If Trump had done that Jan-31 We would be safer but it would have gone the 9th circuit court

Rugged American individualism stoked by a MostUnmanlyPresident who doesn't understand science nor cares about people can beat the rest of the world with more cases and deaths than anyone else. MAGA2020

We lead the world in cases and deaths. American Exceptionalism Republican style.

These countries are 'small potatoes' in TrumpIsANationalDisgrace's plan of (in)action to 'destroy' COVID.

Was it less people doing this?

Island in the middle of the ocean, Peninsula that has sealed border

Have we flatten the curve?

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