The Surgeon General tells Fox & Friends that the U.S. can't implement measures like “authoritarian” South Korea has

South Korea is a democracy

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Citation From the March 16, 2020, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends

DR. JEROME ADAMS: We are not an authoritarian nation, so we have to be careful when we say let's do what China did, let's do what South Korea did. A lot of our public health authority lies in the state and local level, and I've worked for a local health department, and a state health department. And what we're seeing now is that these state and local health departments are saying give us guidance, give us more cover, we want you to come in and tell us what we should be doing to protect ourselves.