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Japan has tested just 0.2% of its population -- one of the lowest rates among developed countries. Yet the curve has been flattened, with deaths well below 1,0
by hprotagonist 6y ago
Japan has tested just 0.2% of its population -- one of the lowest rates among developed countries.
Yet the curve has been flattened, with deaths well below 1,000, by far the fewest among the Group of Seven developed nations. In Tokyo, its dense center, cases have dropped to single digits on most days.
excuse me, but given that testing rate, how the crap do you know that 1. the curve is flat, 2. deaths are at any particular number at all or 3. case rates are in any digit range at all?!
- vidanay 6y agoI am confident the numbers are somewhere between 0.00 and 1.00
- standardUser 6y agoIf the virus had spread in Japan at the same rate that we've seen in Italy and New York, we would know it. We would see it in hospital admissions and the number of deaths. If early antibody testing is correct, then we don't know the actual transmission rate or number of cases in any nation. Though Japan may be even more opaque because of their astoundingly low testing rate.
- luckylion 6y agoI don't know about the curve, but deaths seem simple, don't they? You look at those who died and figure out what killed them. Especially when you do not have a giant number of them, that sounds very much doable and would get you a pretty exact count.
- Barrin92 6y ago>, 2. deaths are at any particular number at all excess deaths over a given time period are a pretty good indicator, which haven't increased at all compared to recent years.