Successful Strategies from Asia and Europe Flyer for a Zoom Presentation from Elton Sherwin America Has Had 50 Times More Deaths per Capita than the Asian Democracies What Can We Learn from These Asian Governments? I read 100s of reports from South Korea, Taiwan and Japan and concluded… The Pacific rim democracies that have contained major outbreaks of COVID-19 have taken 12 actions that together have proven amazingly effective.