Effective Control of COVID-19 in South Korea: Cross-Sectional Study of Epidemiological Data

Gwang Hun Jeong   ^{1 *} , MS ;   Hyo Jeong Lee   ^{2 *} , MS ;   Jinhee Lee   ^{3 *} , MD, PhD ;   Jun Young Lee   ^{4 *} , MD, PhD ;   Keum Hwa Lee   ⁵ , MD, MSc ;   Young Joo Han   ⁶ , MD ;   Sojung Yoon   ² , BE ;   Seohyun Ryu   ² , MS ;   Da Kyung Kim   ⁷ , MS ;   Myung Bae Park   ⁸ , PhD ;   Jae Won Yang   ⁴ , MD, PhD ;   Maria Effenberger   ⁹ , MD ;   Michael Eisenhut   ¹⁰ , MD ;   Sung Hwi Hong   ¹¹ , MD, MPH ;   Andreas Kronbichler   ¹² , MD ;   Ramy Abou Ghayda   ¹³ , MD ;   Jae Il Shin   ⁵ , MD, PhD

¹ College of Medicine, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, Republic of Korea

² College of Medicine, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

³ Department of Psychiatry, Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine, Wonju, Republic of Korea

⁴ Department of Nephrology, Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine, Wonju, Republic of Korea

⁵ Department of Pediatrics, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

⁶ Department of Pediatrics, Samsung Changwon Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Changwon, Republic of Korea

⁷ College of Medicine, Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine, Wonju, Republic of Korea

⁸ Department of Gerontology Health and Welfare, Pai Chai University, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

⁹ Deparment of Internal Medicine I, Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Endocrinology & Metabolism, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

¹⁰ Luton & Dunstable University Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust, Luton, United Kingdom

¹¹ Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States

¹² Department of Internal Medicine IV, Nephrology and Hypertension, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

¹³ Urology Institute, University Hospitals System, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, United States

*these authors contributed equally