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Originally Posted by Sprintey
How did the South Koreans or Taiwanese go? SK had an outbreak of size so it would be interesting to compare - Taiwan got the lid on it early as of SARS experience...
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South Korea hasn't done all that well. They had a relatively mild first wave but never really got it down and it just sort of hung around for 4 months until the second and much larger wave hit in mid August. They have a total of 23,699 cases causing 407 deaths for a CMR of 1.7% as well as 46 cases & 0.8 deaths per 100k of population. They have tested 4.5% of the population.
We don't watch Taiwan that closely but they look to have had not much impact with a total of 500 cases with 5 deaths for a CMR of 1.36% as well as 2 cases & 0.02 deaths / 100k of population. Having said that, they have only tested 0.4% of the population.
Using Australia as a comparison, we have a CMR of 3.26% and 106 cases & 3.4 deaths / 100k of population. We have tested 29.7% of the population.