2/ S Korea widely regarded as a role model for fighting
#Covid19
. The world needs to learn from their success, but most people can’t read Korean. Let’s make the life-saving information in this playbook accessible to people everywhere.
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1/ SAVE LIVES by translating Korean→English! 75 page playbook for
@KoreaCDC
’s fight against
#Covid19
. Let’s translate into English by Monday morning. No time to lose! Please share the link.
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3/ Here in the US, I hear a lot of complaining about our government. But hey, it’s we who are the people, right? We should all pitch in and help in any way we can. That’s why we’re staying home to protect each other.
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4/ And that’s why we’re crowdsourcing this translation. Doing it the old-fashioned way would take longer, and the virus spreads fast. So please share the link, or translate if you can.
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5/ Let’s finish this weekend, in time to help
@PIH
next week as it fights
#Covid19
in 8 countries around the world.
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6/ S Korea has succeeded in controlling a major outbreak “without China’s draconian restrictions on speech and movement, or economically damaging lockdowns like those in Europe and the United States.”
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7/ “The first cases of
#Covid19
were reported in the United States and South Korea on the same day.” True! Fact-checked by Snopes.
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8/ As has been widely reported, S Korea ramped up to a very high rate of testing early on.
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9/ S Korea introduced innovations like drive-thru testing in parking lots and “phone booth” testing in hospitals
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10/ Now that the US and other Western countries are finally catching up with testing, they should study the rest of S Korea’s playbook. Let’s make it possible through translation.
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11/ “Mike Ryan, the
@WHO
’s emergencies head, warned on Sunday that lockdowns wouldn’t be enough to control the pandemic and urged governments to focus on identifying and isolating infected people and their contacts.”
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12/ “It’s not just about physical distancing, it’s not just about locking down,” he said. “In China, and in Singapore, in Korea, they really focused on having that comprehensive strategy.”
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13/ Jung Eun-kyeong, now legendary
@KoreaCDC
head. A ‘reporter asked...about...a rumor...that she sleeps less than an hour each night. “More than an hour,” she corrected him, before moving on to the next question.’ /end
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@SebastianSeung
Thank you for the English translation!! Very helpful! What is the treatment protocol for covid19 in Korea? Unless I missed it, the document said “supportive care”. Do they use any anti-virals to treat admitted patients or in the mild/moderately ill as an outpatient? Thank you 🙏
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