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South Korea started out with 30 confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of February 17, 2020. Media reports surfaced on February 18 that a 61-year-old Korean woman tested positive for the virus in Daegu, South Korea’s third-largest city. Dubbed “Patient 31,” this particular case not only represented a critical point that led to the rapid transmission of the virus through the rest of Korean society. It also came to serve as a warning to the rest of the world by underscoring the grave consequences of failing to practice social distancing and self-isolation. South Korea saw a steep spike of case numbers in the following weeks and reached its peak daily case count on February 29 – forty days after its first confirmed case on January 20 – with 909 new cases and up nearly 500 from the previous day. It became the second most infected country after China by early March. South Korea undertook a massive public and private sector effort to fashion a national response to the pandemic. Korea’s drive-through testing started picking up media attention around the world and hailed as an ingenious measure to protect healthcare workers from exposure while providing expeditious results to prospective patients. Now, two months after the first confirmed case, South Korea is commended for its exemplary response in efforts to contain the outbreak. Through timely development and approval of a functioning diagnostic test, frequent dissemination of information and public resources, heightened border control, and meticulous contact mapping through patient questionnaires and GPS-based mobile applications, South Korea’s efforts to “flatten the curve” are seemingly working. While the United States outranked China on March 26, 2020 as the country with the highest number of infected patients with an upwards of 84,000 confirmed cases, Korea now sits tenth on the roster of nations with the highest numbers of coronavirus cases. To document this trajectory of South Korea’s national response efforts against the spread of COVID-19, the CSIS Korea Chair created a timeline of events outlining policies and other measures implemented to date. The CSIS Korea Chair would like to thank medical professionals, healthcare personnel, volunteers, experts, journalists, delivery workers and all those at the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic who work tirelessly to provide essential services to the public during this time.

Sikhs in New York prepared and packaged over 30,000 home-cooked meals for Americans in self-isolation. The initiative was taken by The Sikh Center of New Yor...

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Through the garbled word soup of fancy buzzwords and bureaucratic newspeak, officials in Washington state are basically saying they are preparing to ration health services, with those whom the state seems as less desirable to receive less attention and care. In the age of what’s pretty much Bernie Sanders’s wet dream of socialized healthcare, there…

The coronavirus accelerates a generational and ideological transition on the right.

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They say the government’s slow response and a creaking health service contrast poorly with Poland’s health system and aggressive actions. The epidemic also put many of them out of work.

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"There's about triple the usual influx of patients being wheeled into the E.R."

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MAR 28, 2020 - Former U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn, a physician who became a powerful force in Congress on fiscal matters, died early Saturday morning after a long fight with prostate cancer. He was 72. Coburn, of Muskogee, served in the Senate from 2005 to 2015 and in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 2001. After leaving the Senate, he pushed for a constitutional convention and advocated for a range of conservative fiscal causes. A statement from Coburn's family on Saturday morning said, "Because of his strong faith, he rested in the hope found in John chapter 11 verse 25 where Jesus said, 'I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me, will live, even though they die.' Today he lives in heaven.

Xi has Weakened China, Sullied its Reputation, and Reminded Us What We Stand For.

Italian virologist said that open borders & fears over “racism” crippled Italy’s response to coronavirus. Professor of Virology and Microbiology

After U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said bogus COVID-19 conspiracy theories spread by Iran put Iranians at risk, that country’s Foreign Ministry doubled down by citing disputed claims from a notorious conspiracy outlet.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro slammed President Trump as a “racist cowboy” as he defied a $15 million bounty by the US to face drug-trafficking charges.

Debt, decline, and immigration.

Former Senator Tom Coburn, R-Okla., has died after a years-long fight with prostate cancer, according to a report.

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President Trump took aim at Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Friday night, claiming in a Twitter message that the first-term Democrat was “way in over her head” amid the coronavirus outbreak and “doesn’t have a clue.”