[Silver Bridge] Volume 5 · Chapter 17 · The Same Virus, Five Different Years: The Old Man at the Window and the Old Man in the Corridor

Key points in 3 lines

1. This serial article looks back on five years of COVID-19 by comparing two scenes: a window of a nursing ward at a South Korean hospital and a corridor at a Shanghai senior care center.
2. The author wrote that the risk of death for elderly patients in nursing wards of Korean hospitals was 3.58 times higher than for patients in general hospitals.
3. South Korea aims to increase the number of home-visit family doctor centers to 250 by 2027, and the author asks whether they themselves directly asked how people were doing.

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