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> U.S. has swelled to more than 700,000 while Korea [...] have slowed to just over 10,000. Comparing absolutes is not very useful so I thought I'd double check

by tomxor 7y ago

> U.S. has swelled to more than 700,000 while Korea [...] have slowed to just over 10,000. Comparing absolutes is not very useful so I thought I'd double check this. The difference is obviously less when normalized but the US is still an order of magnitude worse than SK: USA: 700e3 / 328.2e6 * 100 = 0.213% SK: 10e3 / 51.64e6 * 100 = 0.019%

lm28469 7y ago
Looking at the graphs shows a whole other story though. South korea is on the way down for weeks now, the US are still on the way up. (active cases) https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/south-korea/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/south-kore... https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/