Not only is this not correct, it’s a great disservice to one area these countries excelled: the science. They had scientists who understood airborne transmission and key role of ventilation and superspreading early on, along with explaining correctly reason for masks.https://twitter.com/NickKristof/status/1324875370542358529 …
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Replying to @zeynep
or it could be immunity? zeynep look at tokyo seroprevalence studies? well over 50%. this is a 60nm virus. it spreads, like viruses do. why is asia uniformly so good and the rest of world uniformly so bad? is every asian country the same? of course not. not so lurking variable.
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They've had several near misses with respiratory viruses over the past few decades.
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Replying to @joeedh @tajarvarghese
So did Canada, with SARS.
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