노밸경제학상을 받은 미국의 저명한 경제학자인 폴 크루그먼 교수가 뉴욕타임스에 미국 트럼프 행정부의 코로나19에 대한 대처가 잘못되었음을 지적하는 칼럼을 올리면서 훌륭하게 대응한 사례로 우리나라를 특정하여 언급하고 있어 해당 부분을 소개합니다.
3 Rules for the Trump Pandemic
One: Don’t trust the president.
By Paul Krugman
Opinion Columnist
March 19, 2020, 4:58 p.m. ET
Compare, for example, America’s handling of the coronavirus with that of South Korea. Both countries reported their first case on Jan. 20. But Korea moved quickly to implement widespread testing; it has used the data from that testing to guide social distancing and other containment measures; and the disease appears to be on the wane there.
In the U.S., by contrast, testing has barely begun — we’ve tested only 60,000 people compared with South Korea’s 290,000, even though we have six times its population, and the number of cases here appears to be skyrocketing.
3 Rules for the Trump Pandemic
One: Don’t trust the president.
By Paul Krugman
Opinion Columnist
March 19, 2020, 4:58 p.m. ET
Compare, for example, America’s handling of the coronavirus with that of South Korea. Both countries reported their first case on Jan. 20. But Korea moved quickly to implement widespread testing; it has used the data from that testing to guide social distancing and other containment measures; and the disease appears to be on the wane there.
In the U.S., by contrast, testing has barely begun — we’ve tested only 60,000 people compared with South Korea’s 290,000, even though we have six times its population, and the number of cases here appears to be skyrocketing.