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> In tests/capita US is 42nd That requires that you compare the US to Iceland, Faeroe Islands, Falkland Islands, UAE, Malta, Gibraltar, Luxembourg, Bahrain, Es
by adventured 7y ago
> In tests/capita US is 42nd
That requires that you compare the US to Iceland, Faeroe Islands, Falkland Islands, UAE, Malta, Gibraltar, Luxembourg, Bahrain, Estonia, San Marino, Cyprus, Isle of Man, Lithuania, Brunei, Qatar, Liechtenstein, Ireland, Latvia, Andorra, Channel Islands, Bermuda, Aruba.
Nice try.
Back on planet earth, here's the list of actual sane comparables that are in front of the US, in order:
Italy, Germany, Spain, Australia, Russia, Canada
And Russia is fake. They haven't tested much at all.
The US has tested at a higher rate than South Korea (which is behind all of those tiny nations also).
The US testing rate is just behind Belgium, a nation 1/29th the size of the US. And it's not very far behind Singapore at this point, either.
- lostapathy 7y agoThis shouldn't be getting downvoted. Many of the countries testing "more per capita" have a lower population than cities that many here on hacker news wouldn't even consider "real cities". Scaling testing in the Isle of Man above the US only takes a total of 1100 tests. Of course they are testing more per-capita than we are.
- rechristened 7y agoIt's like saying that Saint Lucia has over 10 Nobel Prize laureates per million population but then finding out that the country has a population of 180,000 and that works out to 2 laureates in the country.