Believe it or not, one country has gone 200 days without a COVID-19 case

• Most every coronavirus update these days is a frightful summation of more pain to come from the pandemic this winter, but there's one country that's beaten back the coronavirus to a truly impressive degree.
  
• Taiwan, an island nation of 23 million people, has not recorded a local COVID-19 case in 200 days.
  
• Moreover, Taiwan has only recorded 550 coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic, as well as only seven deaths.

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If you only listen to certain expert voices right now to get a sense of where we are in the coronavirus pandemic, you'd be forgiven for feeling pretty downcast right now. As an example, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, speaking about the pandemic there during a press conference on Thursday, sounded truly depressing: "The virus is raging throughout the state of Ohio. There's no place to hide." As far as the country as a whole, White House health advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci sounded especially dire in various coronavirus updates he shared on Wednesday, such as during an appearance on CNBC’s The News with Shepard Smith which saw the doctor point to rising COVID-19 case counts in 47 states. That led Dr. Fauci to lament that pretty much the entirety of the US is “going in the wrong direction.”

The thing is, though, it doesn't have to be this way. For proof, consider the fact that there is actually one country in the world that has not, as of the time of this writing, had a local case of COVID-19 in 200 days.

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