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Apr 23, 2021
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Places like New York and Italy that had big early COVID-19 outbreaks generally ended up with higher death tolls than places that were better-prepared for the virus by the time it arrived.

But then there’s South Korea, which in the early phases of the pandemic was one of the countries that suffered the most. But then, unlike the United States — and also …

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