Why did everyone say South Korea had done a good job fighting COVID-19
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For 'fighting' you might substitute 'eliminating' and 'preventing' (if that's what South Korea had actually done). No one has yet found an effective way of eliminating or preventing it so far, however. 'killing' and 'avoiding' are not good choices, in my opinion.
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For 'fighting' you might substitute 'eliminating' and 'preventing' (if that's what South Korea had actually done). No one has yet found an effective way of eliminating or preventing it so far, however.
'killing' and 'avoiding' are not good choices, in my opinion. You can certainly kill a virus in a test tube, but that's not the point, and there are so many cases of COVID-19 throughout
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fighting is fine.
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