key: cord-0885747-2d1rk6jb
authors: Lee, Jong-Koo
title: We Need More Public Hospitals and to Review Rapidly Possibility of Therapeutics as a COVID-19 Mitigation Strategy to Prevent the Collapse of the National Heath Care Service
date: 2020-12-03
journal: Osong Public Health Res Perspect
DOI: 10.24171/j.phrp.2020.11.6.01
sha: b0c796ec4de162574c1edd82743a722ca5d8e7e4
doc_id: 885747
cord_uid: 2d1rk6jb

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However, it is expected that procurement of a COVID-19 vaccine for Republic of Korea will be in the early to middle of 2021 which is late compared with other countries worldwide.

It will be interesting to observe the response strategies to COVID-19 that will be used by countries that are vaccinating medical professionals, the elderly, and those at high risk, compared with the countries that do not have access to a A risk mitigation strategy is needed to prevent the collapse of the health care system in the Republic of Korea due to the rapid increase in patient numbers due to COVID-19. However, without new therapeutic regimens for COVID-19 this will not be true, "Prevention is the active treatment [3] . 

The author has no conflicts of interest to declare.

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