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Where are you getting that data? The 'Our World in Data' site says reporting is inconsistent, but the data they do have shows per-capita Germany, Italy, Belgium

by rovolo 7y ago

Where are you getting that data? The 'Our World in Data' site says reporting is inconsistent, but the data they do have shows per-capita Germany, Italy, Belgium, and Austria doing more than the US, and France, the UK, and the Netherlands doing less. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/full-list-cumulative-total-tests-per-thousand?yScale=log&time=2020-02-24..&country=ITA+USA+DEU+FRA+GBR+AUT+BEL+NLD+IRL https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/full-list-cumulative-tota... (I'm using cumulative because the daily numbers are missing for Germany, France, and the Netherlands)

makomk 7y ago
It's certainly possible other countries have passed the US since I last looked, the exact leaderboard does seem to vary depending on things like which country is hitting the biggest roadblocks in their test rollout right now. (Though Italy's lead in total per-capita tests is mainly because they were the first Western country to have their outbreak hit catastrophic levels and they ramped up testing fairly aggressively early on in response to that. I presume their testing wasn't so great prior to the collapse of their healthcare system, since they went from reporting only three cases to disaster alarmingly quickly.)
- rovolo 7y ago
  Are you using some metric other than "per-capita" for tests? I could understand something like "per-positive case", but it's unclear from your comments. I ask because the data I have shows the US solidly in the middle for the big EU countries over the past month (Germany and France don't show up on the daily graphs) - Italy started earliest, but the daily per-capita tests have been higher every day except Apr 4: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/full-list-daily-covid-19-tests-per-thousand?yScale=log&time=2020-03-18..&country=ITA+USA https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/full-list-daily-covid-19-... - Austria, Czechia, and Portugal have been higher than the US more often than not: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/full-list-daily-covid-19-tests-per-thousand?yScale=log&time=2020-03-18..&country=USA+AUT+PRT+CZE+FRA https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/full-list-daily-covid-19-... - Belgium is on par; the UK & the Netherlands are definitely worse: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/full-list-daily-covid-19-tests-per-thousand?yScale=log&time=2020-03-18..&country=USA+BEL+GBR+NLD https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/full-list-daily-covid-19-...

by rovolo 7y ago

makomk 7y ago

It's certainly possible other countries have passed the US since I last looked, the exact leaderboard does seem to vary depending on things like which country is hitting the biggest roadblocks in their test rollout right now. (Though Italy's lead in total per-capita tests is mainly because they were the first Western country to have their outbreak hit catastrophic levels and they ramped up testing fairly aggressively early on in response to that. I presume their testing wasn't so great prior to the collapse of their healthcare system, since they went from reporting only three cases to disaster alarmingly quickly.)

rovolo 7y ago
Are you using some metric other than "per-capita" for tests? I could understand something like "per-positive case", but it's unclear from your comments. I ask because the data I have shows the US solidly in the middle for the big EU countries over the past month (Germany and France don't show up on the daily graphs) - Italy started earliest, but the daily per-capita tests have been higher every day except Apr 4: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/full-list-daily-covid-19-tests-per-thousand?yScale=log&time=2020-03-18..&country=ITA+USA https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/full-list-daily-covid-19-... - Austria, Czechia, and Portugal have been higher than the US more often than not: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/full-list-daily-covid-19-tests-per-thousand?yScale=log&time=2020-03-18..&country=USA+AUT+PRT+CZE+FRA https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/full-list-daily-covid-19-... - Belgium is on par; the UK & the Netherlands are definitely worse: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/full-list-daily-covid-19-tests-per-thousand?yScale=log&time=2020-03-18..&country=USA+BEL+GBR+NLD https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/full-list-daily-covid-19-...