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The fact that we're not testing enough to really understand the case fatality rate is definitely a governmental failure in the ability to (even attempt to!) ram
by rconti 6y ago
The fact that we're not testing enough to really understand the case fatality rate is definitely a governmental failure in the ability to (even attempt to!) ramp up and implement rigorous testing.
However, I think the transmissibility and other such information is just a HARD problem with how quickly this has come on, with different factors in every single locality where it's happening.
- s1artibartfast 6y agoThat may have been the case previously, but is not my understanding of the current state. At least in California, Tests are readily available and anyone who wants one can have one.
- rconti 6y agoSo, first of all, my wife works directly with patients in a hospital in Santa Clara, and she just got tested for the first time yesterday. You're correct that anyone who wants a test can get one (or, if you're wrong, I'm wrong, too). But that's a very different thing from the kind of frequent, high-volume testing we'd need to actually understand what's going on with COVID-19. There's a serious selection bias at play here when the only people who are ACTUALLY getting tested are those who suspect they might have been exposed or are showing symptoms.