This is because other countries are understating infection counts because of poor testing. Wikipedia has a very interesting table with testing stats: https://e

This is because other countries are understating infection counts because of poor testing. Wikipedia has a very interesting table with testing stats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_testing#National_stats https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_testing#National_stat... Many countries or regions have extremely high positive test ratios, for example Lombardy is at 37% positive, France at 20% while Germany is at 7.4% and South Korea at 2.4%. If Lombardy tested more people they would find many many more cases and their reported death rate would decrease. The fact that areas with high infection counts like New York and Northern Italy are reporting high positive test ratios is terrifying. It means that they are doing worse than the numbers indicate and they're limited by testing capacity.