{"id":2790,"date":"2020-05-24T14:09:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T14:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2790"},"modified":"2020-05-24T14:09:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T14:09:01","slug":"germany-and-south-korea-excelled-at-covid-19-containment-it-still-came-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2790","title":{"rendered":"Germany and South Korea excelled at Covid-19 containment. It still came back."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;The recent spike in Covid-19 cases in some of the countries thought to have best contained the virus \u2014 first&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/4\/17\/21213787\/coronavirus-asia-waves-hong-kong-singapore-taiwan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Singapore<\/a>, now&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/5\/11\/21254451\/south-korea-nightclub-outbreak-coronavirus-infections-reopening-dangers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">South Korea<\/a>&nbsp;and, potentially,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/5\/1\/21239638\/germany-coronavirus-lockdown-reopening-merkel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Germany<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 is a glimpse into America\u2019s possible future as states start reopening businesses and public activities after several months of lockdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All it can take to reverse the positive trends is a single undetected case. As Vox\u2019s Alex Ward&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/5\/11\/21254451\/south-korea-nightclub-outbreak-coronavirus-infections-reopening-dangers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;this week, one South Korean man who went out for a night on the town at several Seoul dance clubs has been linked to nearly 80 new cases there. Suddenly the country\u2019s curve is rising again and the local government ordered bars and restaurants to be closed, an abrupt reversal of its reopening plans.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/5\/13\/21257419\/coronavirus-cases-us-south-korea-germany-second-wave\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/5\/13\/21257419\/coronavirus-cases-us-south-korea-germany-second-wave<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The recent spike in Covid-19 cases in some of the countries thought to have best contained the virus \u2014 first Singapore, now South Korea and, potentially, Germany \u2014 is a glimpse into America\u2019s possible future as states start reopening businesses and public activities after several months of lockdown.<br \/>\nAll it can take to reverse the positive trends is a single undetected case. As Vox\u2019s Alex Ward reported this week, one South Korean man who went out for a night on the town at several Seoul dance clubs has been linked to nearly 80 new cases there. Suddenly the country\u2019s curve is rising again and the local government ordered bars and restaurants to be closed, an abrupt reversal of its reopening plans.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[588,409,483],"class_list":["post-2790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-corona","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2791,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790\/revisions\/2791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}