Just-so storytelling about places that avoid coronavirus is proving to be an irresistible journalistic form. Here's a fawning profile of Kerala's "rock star" health minister, who sounds awesome. Kerala has had only four deaths for 35 million people. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/14/the-coronavirus-slayer-how-keralas-rock-star-health-minister-helped-save-it-from-covid-19 …
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I cannot comment about other places but thisdoes not apply to Kerala, for sure. Everything in that article about Kerala is true. Testing, tracking, support, isolation.... all scaled up and working.
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I believe it. But there are many countries where there is almost no testing, support, tracking, and isolation, and they're also doing great. The error is in inferring a causative relationship between these policies and low COVID numbers.
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