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In Australia we are testing people with symptoms (recently expanded in most places to hae no additional criteria). Some counties with a bigger outbreak/ lesser
by robryan 6y ago
In Australia we are testing people with symptoms (recently expanded in most places to hae no additional criteria). Some counties with a bigger outbreak/ lesser lockdowns are going to have more people with symptoms to test. 1.7% positive rate is one of the lowest in the world and combined with high testing suggests we are detecting most symptomatic cases.
- mkl 6y agoNZ is mostly just testing people with symptoms too. That's pretty worrying to me given data like this article's. I think we should also be testing big random samples from the population. We've started testing hundreds of apparently-healthy volunteers, which is a good start: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/121074955/coronavirus-wider-covid19-testing-starts-in-christchurch-community https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/12107495...