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The figures I see on the internet for testing in most African countries are not very high. It's become a talking point that more tests produce more cases; could
by perl4ever 6y ago
The figures I see on the internet for testing in most African countries are not very high. It's become a talking point that more tests produce more cases; couldn't you argue the inverse - fewer tests produce fewer cases?
It appears about 3200 tests per million are reported for all of Africa, compared to say Spain at ~110,000 or the US at around 96,000.
- zamalek 6y agoAbsolutely, maybe I'm wrong. My experience has just been that Africa deeply respects the power of a pathogen.
- perl4ever 6y agoAmong the top 20 countries with the most new cases at the moment, other than South Africa, Russia, and the US, they seem to all be developing countries outside Africa. So if African countries in general have had a good response, I wonder why it's spreading so rapidly in countries like India, Mexico, Chile, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh, Peru, Colombia, Iran, etc...do they not respect the power of a pathogen?