haxxiy on 06 March 2020
| Angelus said: I think it's pretty safe to say that the infection is much more widespread in the US than the official confirmed reports suggest. Which, tbh, is probably the case in most countries, but it would appear that testing is lagging behind particularly in the states. I've seen several stories lamenting the ridiculous requirements to even qualify you for testing (must have been out of the country in the last 14 days, and/or had contact with someone who was already tested positive), which I would assume are either a result of not having enough testing kits to go around, or the people at the top over there are just plain stupid and have never heard of exponential growth patterns. |
Yup. The US has the highest death rate in the world by far. Higher even than Wuhan, were apparently a more virulent strain of the virus was common until late January.
Italy also has a rather high, almost Wuhan-ish death rate, but tested less than a quarter of the number of people tested in South Korea, by comparison, and both outbreaks are believed to have begun around the same time frame.
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