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I don't like to use infection as a standard because that depends 100% on how much testing you do. So it's easy to fake by just doing less testing. Deaths is mu
by ars 6y ago
I don't like to use infection as a standard because that depends 100% on how much testing you do. So it's easy to fake by just doing less testing.
Deaths is much harder to fake, and if you checked you would see there isn't any actual medical treatment, mortality rates aren't going to change much given basic care, so it's an excellent way to compare countries (except maybe those that are too poor to even have the basics).
- danhak 6y ago> I don't like to use infection as a standard because that depends 100% on how much testing you do As I pointed out, our infection rate is higher than European countries that have a testing rate >= ours. So that is a fair comparison. I.E. our positivity rate is higher.
- ars 6y agoSource please for testing rate? Both for the European countries, and for the individual US states (looking at the US as one lumped whole will give misleading results because different states are at different points in their infection, some are ending like NY, and some are starting like CA).
- danhak 6y agohttps://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries You can click through to get more granular on the country, state, and county levels.