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> Britain, with about six times the population, tested only 587,000 people in the most recent week, far fewer per capita than Sweden. And Britain conducted far
by kekub 6y ago
> Britain, with about six times the population, tested only 587,000 people in the most recent week, far fewer per capita than Sweden. And Britain conducted far more tests than France, Germany or Spain in that period.
Britain has a population of 66 Mio. Germany has a population of 83 Mio. Germany conducted more than a million tests in that period [1]. It does not look like Britain conducted far more tests in that period neither absolute nor relative.
[1]: https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus/Situationsberichte/Sept_2020/2020-09-23-de.pdf?__blob=publicationFile https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus...
- morsch 6y agoGermany did test more than a million people in that period and so did the UK[1]. The article is way off. UK does test more than Germany both absolute and relative. This isn't surprising since the UK has four times as many cases as Germany. But they also test more than the US and France, both of which have (much) higher case numbers. [2] [1] https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/testing https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/testing [2] https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?yScale=log&zoomToSelection=true&minPopulationFilter=1000000&time=2020-06-01..latest&country=FRA~DEU~GBR~USA~SWE®ion=World&testsMetric=true&interval=smoothed&hideControls=true&perCapita=true&smoothing=7&pickerMetric=location&pickerSort=asc https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?yScale=...
- kekub 6y agoThanks for clarification. I was not sure about a valid source for UK numbers, so I did not check that figure.