South Korea’s testing capacity reached 20,000 tests per day in the opening weeks of its outbreak. That was for a country of just 51 million people. It equates to about 130,000 tests a day in the US. It’s a level of testing that the US wouldn’t reach for about four months into our epidemic. Even though the US and South Korea would each report its first confirmed cases of COVID on the same day, South Korea would record daily testing totals over the next two months that would dwarf those in the US. This wasn’t because the South Koreans had more infection, but because they were actively looking
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