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> In that case, Iowa is doing very badly for cases/1M. This is interesting to me. I don't personally know anyone who has caught Coronavirus, much less been hos
by war1025 6y ago
> In that case, Iowa is doing very badly for cases/1M.
This is interesting to me. I don't personally know anyone who has caught Coronavirus, much less been hospitalized or died from it.
If this is average or worse than average, it really makes me wonder why we've gotten so worked up about the re-opening. I assumed based on the way it's covered on the news that people were dropping like flies in other parts of the world.
- Symbiote 6y agoI'm really not sure if the cases/1M is a reasonable figure to compare. At least between European countries, there have been quite different approaches to testing -- who gets tested varies depending on symptoms, perceived risk to themselves, risk to others, and availability of testing. I don't personally know anyone here in Denmark that has tested positive. Two people I know know someone who has tested positive here. Many hotspots seem to be limited to quite small communities -- a single building, a single care home for the elderly, or a single food processing factory might have tens of cases (even deaths for the care home), so it's not so surprising that I'm unaware of anyone infected.