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> The availability of universal health insurance is the "simplest" explanation for Canada's lower infections and deaths, said Ross Upshur, a professor of public
by chiefalchemist 5y ago
> The availability of universal health insurance is the "simplest" explanation for Canada's lower infections and deaths, said Ross Upshur, a professor of public health at the University of Toronto.
I can see how care can mitigate deaths, but not lower infections. Anyone have insights?
- nradov 5y agoNo one in either country really has accurate numbers on actual infections because most patients never get tested or officially counted. There hasn't been any widespread, ongoing random population sampling so we're left to guess based on a few isolated seroprevalence studies. The US CDC estimated that the actual number of infections is about 4 times the number of "cases", but there's a wide error bar on that number.