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South Korea apparently has conducted 11500 tests/ 1m population. It's ridiculous to claim that they detected every covid case and to suggest that their cfr is a
by FiberBundle 6y ago
South Korea apparently has conducted 11500 tests/ 1m population. It's ridiculous to claim that they detected every covid case and to suggest that their cfr is a lower bound for the ifr.
- tigershark 6y agoThey tested everyone that was in contact with a reported case, I never claimed that they tested the whole population. How do you explain that they are showing only a single digit increase of new cases per day if, as you assert, there is a huge number of unaccounted cases?
- FiberBundle 6y agoProbably by implementing strict quarantine measures at the start of the pandemic. They likely had many undetected cases in the beginning as well, the quarantine reduced the pool of infected people a lot. Given that the number of infected people is relatively low right now, their testing capacity probably allows for fairly good tracing of cases, which is one of the primary reasons why their numbers remain low, in addition to factors such as social distancing and high hygiene standards. But the large number of undetected cases in the beginning would would reduce the ifr significantly.