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Envoy Wishes US Was More Like Vietnam in Virus Fight

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   Vietnam may look to the United States for everything from technology to
   study abroad programs. But when it comes to a pandemic that has killed
   nearly 147,000 Americans and zero Vietnamese, according to Johns
   Hopkins University, the richer nation would do well to follow Vietnam's
   lead, according to a top U.S. envoy in the Southeast Asian nation.

   After years of investing in public health, Vietnam headed off COVID-19
   early in the year by testing, treating, and isolating patients quickly.
   The U.S. consul general in Ho Chi Minh City, Marie Damour, held up this
   response as a model, speaking at an event to mark the silver
   anniversary of establishing diplomatic ties between the two former war
   enemies.

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