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The U.S. Now Leads the World in Confirmed Coronavirus Cases
- zalkota 7y agoThis is likely a result of better testing capacity compared to other countries. Im tempted to believe that China has lied about their cases. Theres a city in China with 1054 recovered but only 4 deaths. Seems odds
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- olliej 7y agoWhat? The US is drastically behind most other countries. I fully agree with you that I don't trust the Chinese Gov specifically (their track record is not stellar). But the reality is the US delayed the various lock downs longer than it should have, actively prevented testing, and even today is not able to do regular and free drive through testing of everyone (which other countries are doing). If anything I expect that the US gov reports are understating the counts.
- tdfx 7y ago> If anything I expect that the US gov reports are understating the counts. Oh definitely, just not as much as before. Testing went from impossible to "if you're lucky".
- jaequery 7y agoI honestly have no idea what is going on. This is like one bad dream I just can’t wake up from. Not sure how the tens of millions of people losing jobs and businesses going to be affected in coming months.
- cobookman 7y ago*not per capita or per geographic area. Europe is still leading https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/geographical-distribution-2019-ncov-cases https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/geographical-distribution-2019... US (327mil) has 5.4x the population of Italy (60mil). Italy, Spain, France, Germany, and UK combined have about the same population as the US. Across those countries there's 193k COVID-19 cases.