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These are confirmed cases, i.e. people who have tested positive. Actual cases, either in India or the UK, are unknown.
by lottin 7y ago
These are confirmed cases, i.e. people who have tested positive. Actual cases, either in India or the UK, are unknown.
- thaway757383884 7y agoEven if India’s number is off by 2 orders of magnitude so the number of cases were actually ~70000 (highly unlikely, since those numbers would show up in hospitalizations), that would 70,000/1.4Bn, so about 1 in 20,000. NYC at 6000 cases meant it had approx 1 positive in 1000, and the UK at 6000 cases meant it had approx 1 positive in 10,000. So even if we assume that the US and UK were not undercounting, and that India was undercounting by a factor of 100 (!), India was about half as infected as the UK and an order of magnitude less infected than NYC when it entered lockdown.
- adrianN 7y agoIndia is a pretty big country and just assuming an equal distribution of cases doesn't seem very useful.
- gindely 7y agoThe difference between a confirmed case and all cases is that in a confirmed case is a case which has had a viral confirmation. But all cases still involves only those people who have presented for medical attention, because a case is effectively a file about a person. What is unknown is infections.