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Texas hasn't even broken 200k tests, but Germany can do that in a week. Texas has bad data.
by ianleeclark 7y ago
Texas hasn't even broken 200k tests, but Germany can do that in a week. Texas has bad data.
- usaar333 7y ago1. Germany has nearly 3x the population so that difference is less stark than you are implying. 2. Maybe they haven't broken 200k tests because there isn't an obvious population to test when you've had an order of magnitude fewer covid deaths?
- ianleeclark 7y ago> 1. Germany has nearly 3x the population so that difference is less stark than you are implying. Germany is capable of doing 123k tests per day currently (https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus/Situationsberichte/2020-04-15-de.pdf?__blob=publicationFile https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus...) So, if we were to to scale Texas' to Germany's "3x population", Germany could still handle that in a week. The implication stands. > 2. Maybe they haven't broken 200k tests because there isn't an obvious population to test when you've had an order of magnitude fewer covid deaths? No, it's that they're willing to die for Whataburger. There's nothing else that would tangibly explain a complete refusal by the 9th largest economy in the world to attempt to protect itself.