Unsettling when you consider that 1st COVID-19 cases in
S Korea and US appeared on the same day...
we could now be facing a half-million dead
S Korea and US appeared on the same day...
we could now be facing a half-million dead
In late January, South Korean health officials summoned representatives from more than 20 medical companies from their lunar New Year celebrations to a conference room tucked inside Seoul’s busy train station.
One of the country’s top infectious disease officials delivered an urgent message: South Korea needed an effective test immediately to detect the novel coronavirus, then running rampant in China. He promised the companies swift regulatory approval.
Though there were only four known cases in South Korea at that point, 'we were very nervous. We believed that it could develop into a pandemic,' one attendee, Lee Sang-won, an infectious diseases expert at the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told Reuters.
'We acted like an army' he said...
One of the country’s top infectious disease officials delivered an urgent message: South Korea needed an effective test immediately to detect the novel coronavirus, then running rampant in China. He promised the companies swift regulatory approval.
Though there were only four known cases in South Korea at that point, 'we were very nervous. We believed that it could develop into a pandemic,' one attendee, Lee Sang-won, an infectious diseases expert at the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told Reuters.
'We acted like an army' he said...