Lead Korean Doctor talks about COVID

[Anonymous]

It's kind of long, but really informative. And yes, there are subtitles.

Explains why social distancing works
Wear a mask
Korea is doing 15K tests daily (S. Korean population is about 55.5 million or so. You can get a test if you want. It costs $150, but if you are infected, government will pay for your care)
Korea didn't get everything right. Hopefully, they and other countries will learn from the mistakes made
You have to be humble. The moment you become arrogant, you lose. We have to be humble until the end.

[Anonymous]

Nice interview. Thank you.

You have to be humble. This is hard stuff. Left unsaid: you have to prepare. And you have to tell the truth.

[Anonymous]

Whoa. I am not saying the physician being interviewed is unqualified, but he says (according to subtitles),

"In December 2019, in the city of Wuhan in Hubei province of China, we started seeing pneumonia cases of an unknown cause which lead to deaths. When the Chinese government became aware of the issue, they notified the World Health Organization (WHO) on December 31, 2019." No mention of the censure and threats against Dr. Li Wenliang.

You don't find that to be rather rewriting and whitewashing history, OP?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's kind of long, but really informative. And yes, there are subtitles.

Explains why social distancing works
Wear a mask
Korea is doing 15K tests daily (S. Korean population is about 55.5 million or so. You can get a test if you want. It costs $150, but if you are infected, government will pay for your care)
Korea didn't get everything right. Hopefully, they and other countries will learn from the mistakes made
You have to be humble. The moment you become arrogant, you lose. We have to be humble until the end.

Interesting but they aren’t wearing masks and aren’t two meters apart.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whoa. I am not saying the physician being interviewed is unqualified, but he says (according to subtitles),

"In December 2019, in the city of Wuhan in Hubei province of China, we started seeing pneumonia cases of an unknown cause which lead to deaths. When the Chinese government became aware of the issue, they notified the World Health Organization (WHO) on December 31, 2019." No mention of the censure and threats against Dr. Li Wenliang.

You don't find that to be rather rewriting and whitewashing history, OP?

It’s an interview based on medical information in Korea. Not China. And it’s not a political interview. I see no reason for this guy to mention it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whoa. I am not saying the physician being interviewed is unqualified, but he says (according to subtitles),

"In December 2019, in the city of Wuhan in Hubei province of China, we started seeing pneumonia cases of an unknown cause which lead to deaths. When the Chinese government became aware of the issue, they notified the World Health Organization (WHO) on December 31, 2019." No mention of the censure and threats against Dr. Li Wenliang.

You don't find that to be rather rewriting and whitewashing history, OP?

You’re the one inserting politics into the discussion, PP.
The doctor knows very well how it went down and expects us to know as well.

[Anonymous]

I watched this and went and got the masks. I don't trust anything coming out of our administration.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whoa. I am not saying the physician being interviewed is unqualified, but he says (according to subtitles),

"In December 2019, in the city of Wuhan in Hubei province of China, we started seeing pneumonia cases of an unknown cause which lead to deaths. When the Chinese government became aware of the issue, they notified the World Health Organization (WHO) on December 31, 2019." No mention of the censure and threats against Dr. Li Wenliang.

You don't find that to be rather rewriting and whitewashing history, OP?

You’re the one inserting politics into the discussion, PP.
The doctor knows very well how it went down and expects us to know as well.

Me again. I’m a scientist married to a doctor. Obviously we value accuracy. But it’s not the point of this particular interview.

[Anonymous]

It shows we are more f-ed than anyone ever imagined. We are totally, completely screwed. You can thank your president for that.

[Anonymous]

Thank you so much for posting this! It's very informative, and very helpful -- and clearer than most of the things I've seen and read in the US.

[Anonymous]

Wear a mask

[Anonymous]

Trump says he is doing absolutely great, with Corona, with 16 cases being 0 tomorrow, so I am going to not care about how China did this or that. This Dr. knows what he is talking about. Wish we had S. Korean leadership that listened to their Doc.

[Anonymous]

I love Koreans and yes they are doing many things right but this is such rehearsed government PR.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I watched this and went and got the masks. I don't trust anything coming out of our administration.

Where were you able to find masks??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love Koreans and yes they are doing many things right but this is such rehearsed government PR.

And you know this because?