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How to squash COVID like a bug
Learning from New Zealand’s success
COVID 19 will cause the death and suffering of many people. Much of of this death and suffering could have been avoided. And governments throughout the world can still do much more right now to prevent future suffering.
One country from which we can learn how to squash this virus is New Zealand.
The first cases here appeared in early March, as in most non-Asian countries. The difference from other countries is that they were quickly contained, never exceeded 150 cases per day. In April there are few new cases and the number of daily new cases is decreasing despite increased testing (51,000 tests until now, almost twice the number of tests per 1M people as the USA). As of 9th April 2020 they have only 1,239 cases.
New Zealand has had exactly one death up to 9th April 2020.
In comparison, this is the evolution of daily deaths in the U.S.A.
