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Originally Posted by FlyingScot
"Completely wrong?" If you're going to be brusque, you should at least be right. (Also, when you post misinformation, it seems you also confuse those who thank you.)
Italy is the leader in testing, with approx 21,000 tests per million in population, compared to our less impressive 12,000.
https://www.businessinsider.com/coro...h-korea-2020-4
But more to the point--you'll remember our testing performance early on and how it compared to South Korea. Complete humiliation (at least for those of us in the healthcare industry).
https://www.businessinsider.com/coro...-behind-2020-3
The US is also middling in terms of infection rate per capita. Italy, Sweden the UK, Netherlands, France, Germany, Denmark, Canada...scores of others...also lying?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-..._and_territory
Please post specifics and sources if you disagree |
At the current rate of testing we will surpass Italy in less than 3 weeks. You are forgetting the outbreak started there 5 weeks ahead of the us so right now the stats are apples and oranges. The US has the second lowest death rate of any developed country. Which one might say is the ultimate measure of success. Testing and death rate per CNN. A trusted source unless maybe it was fake news? I only said China was lying you added the other countries. I think that is a universally accepted fact. As to infection rate, that is to be expected. We are the freest most mobile country on the planet. All of this is material to what? We are all going to get this virus, it is only a matter of when. This will probably be with us forever unless a really effective vaccine is found and we will learn to live with it. Life will go on because it has to. Flattening the curve was the goal. That has been accomplished in most places and many well managed states stayed well below hospital capacity. Look at Florida, 2 million more people than NY, the hospital capacity available never dropped below 43%.