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You Need To Listen To This Leading COVID-19 Expert From South Korea | STAY CURIOUS #15

Asian Boss interviews Professor Kim Woo-joo of Korea University Guro Hospital about COVID-19 in early 2020. He covers masks, testing, aerosol spread, and South Korea's response.

Why HN readers recommended it

In early pandemic threads, HN commenters pointed to it as an uninterrupted, practical expert view from Korea on masks, testing and airborne spread.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Asian Boss
Topic
covid-19 response
Format
interview
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
4
HN mentions in dataset
9
Recommendation years in dataset
2020–2020

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.

  • According to the Corona expert in South Korea, masks help a great deal. His assumption on why the WHO only recommends masks in Asia and not anywhere else is due to the limited amount of supply anywhere but in Asia. In Asia people like already …

    bkor on Hacker News · 2020-03
    In The origin story of the N95 mask
  • I highly recommend this video from Korea (Professor Kim Woo-joo from Korea University Guro Hospital) that gives a Korean perspective on the disease and the western response to it: [VIDEO] A few points of interest: (He is a very respectful fellow so apologies if the …

    JimTheMan on Hacker News · 2020-03
    In On “Armchair Epidemiology”
  • To learn more about coronavirus, treatment and vaccine development from the perspective of doctors in S. Korea, try watching these interviews in order. Each is about 30 - 50 min long. I posted the links and the dates they were uploaded. The videos are excellent …

    dba7dba on Hacker News · 2020-04
    In Recovered virus patients retest positive due to 'dead' virus fragments: experts

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