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The US doesn't have billions of people, just checking the ones coming from the countries where it's present would have been enough, other countries managed to d
by saati 7y ago
The US doesn't have billions of people, just checking the ones coming from the countries where it's present would have been enough, other countries managed to do it.
- chrisco255 7y agoThey did that weeks ago. Where have you been? They shut down travel from China a month ago. Which countries managed to contain this thing, by the way? Because I see tens of thousands of cases in Europe and Asia and the Middle East, by the way.
- ceejayoz 7y agoTaiwan and Singapore appear to be containing it thus far. China, too, if you can trust their numbers, and South Korea's look positive after a big starting spike. Each of these countries took early (except for China, but they shut down Wuhan with fewer cases than the US has now), aggressive steps that should be considered a model for others.
- chrisco255 7y agoSouth Korea has 8,000 active cases, over 114 today alone. Singapore has a population of 5.8M. They've got 178 cases. The U.S. has a population of 320M with 1338 cases. That means their infection rate is nearly 10x higher than the U.S. Meanwhile, we are taking action. Shutting down European travel, Chinese travel, cancelling schools, cancelling NBA season, NHL season, etc, etc...We are taking aggressive steps.
- ceejayoz 7y ago> That means their infection rate is nearly 10x higher than the U.S. No, it probably doesn't. It probably reflects the fact that we're not finding folks, because we're not testing enough. Ohio's (Republican, incidentally) governor, for example, is stating that their five confirmed cases likely indicate 100,000 undetected in the community so far: https://twitter.com/GovMikeDeWine/status/1238177953126604801 https://twitter.com/GovMikeDeWine/status/1238177953126604801
- chrisco255 7y agoLook, we can only debate about confirmed cases. You can speculate as to whether there are more or less undetected in one country or another but that's just going to be a bunch of hypothetical posturing leading nowhere.
- ceejayoz 7y agoA country 1/7 our size has done 25x the testing. If you don't think that affects how our numbers net out, I'm not sure we can have a rational discussion beyond here.
- chrisco255 7y agoSource?
- ceejayoz 7y agohttps://www.npr.org/2020/03/12/815097813/experts-credit-south-koreas-extensive-testing-for-curbing-coronavirus-spread https://www.npr.org/2020/03/12/815097813/experts-credit-sout... > In terms of per capita testing, Korea has run 3,600 tests per 1 million population. In contrast, U.S. has just run five tests per 1 million people.
- neurocline 7y agoWe had 1300 cases. Now it's over 2000. It will be well over 5000 by next week. It does not look like other countries have higher infection rates than the U.S., but nearly similar.