Trump Says South Korea “Did A Good Job” in Coronavirus Fight, But Had Trouble at the Beginning

President Trump is absolutely right about South Korea’s slow start, but I would not say South Korea had a “great number of deaths”. The mortality rate is very low in South Korea:

 U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that South Korea did a “good job” handling the coronavirus outbreak but also had “tremendous problems” at the start.

Trump made the remark at a White House press briefing as he defended his own administration’s response to the growing outbreak in the United States.

“I noticed a lot of people are talking about South Korea because they’ve done a good job on one side, but on the other side, tremendous problems at the beginning,” he said. “They had tremendous problems and great numbers of death.”

Yonhap

You can read more at the link, but South Korea current has 8,236 positive infections with 75 deaths. That is a .009 mortality rate currently. As long as Americans handle this issue smartly by not getting the elderly and those with compromised immune systems infected the mortality rate should remain low in the U.S. as well.