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Confirmed cases don't mean shit. Reporting is garbage because we don't have enough tests available. South Korea has been testing en-masse for over a month now
by gt565k 7y ago
Confirmed cases don't mean shit. Reporting is garbage because we don't have enough tests available.
South Korea has been testing en-masse for over a month now and was able to get ahead of the virus spreading, hence the low number of deaths, whereas Italy's reporting is mostly people who already had severe symptoms, and people with mild or no symptoms probably aren't even part of the reporting numbers.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/south-korea/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/south-kore...
- meowface 7y agoEven if the true rate is 10x higher, the odds of running into an infected person are still very low for most Americans. (At the time that confirmed rate was published, at least.)
- tasty_freeze 7y agoSorry for the slow reply; a windows upgrade took out my pc for a day. "Confirmed cases don't mean shit." I agree the numbers reported are probably vastly under-reporting the actual number of cases. But what is your point? The question was "Have you had the coronoa virus", and the person I was responding to said, "i've yet to meet a single person with it either first hand or through friends and family" How does that affect my statement? Imagine this more extreme condition. Corona virus is real, it has infected 1M people, but only one person in the world has been tested, and the test is positive. If someone said, "I don't know anyone who has tested positive," that is not at all surprising since they cannot possibly know that anyone has coronavirus unless they happen to know the one person in the world who has been tested.