Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[Bofferbrauer2]

Oneeee-Chan!!! said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

France has tested a higher share of their inhabitants than Spain by now iirc. Hence the jumps in cases and deaths in the country.

Is there a site where you can see how many got tested in the US?

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Luxembourg has passed the 3000 infected mark with 3034 out of over 26.500, or 4.3% of the population tested. 231 persons are hospitalized, 34 of them in intensive care.

https://msan.gouvernement.lu/en/dossiers/2020/corona-virus.html

I hear Luxembourg is a very rich country.
This is very surprising.

Luxembourg is one of the richest countries per capita, actually the richest one depending on whom you ask. But what do you find very surprising here? 

newwil7l said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

France has tested a higher share of their inhabitants than Spain by now iirc. Hence the jumps in cases and deaths in the country.

Is there a site where you can see how many got tested in the US?

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Luxembourg has passed the 3000 infected mark with 3034 out of over 26.500, or 4.3% of the population tested. 231 persons are hospitalized, 34 of them in intensive care.

https://msan.gouvernement.lu/en/dossiers/2020/corona-virus.html

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Shows the total cases for all countries except China for obvious reasons. You can also arrange the list by testing per capita, cases per capita, etc.

Lafiel said:

newwil7l said:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Shows the total cases for all countries except China for obvious reasons. You can also arrange the list by testing per capita, cases per capita, etc.

I think it's unfortunate they don't indicate that the testing numbers are out of date for many listed countries - it's updated daily for the US, but has been frozen for days (probably due to a lack of official announcements) for the majority of the others.

edit: wikipedia does have a testing list with an "as of" column https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_testing

Thanks you two for your links.

So, the US are quite high... but Spain's numbers are over 2 weeks old and the ones from France are a week old by now, so before the country started really mass-testing. I hope they provide updated numbers soon.

However, it's nice to see how the US is ramping up testing pretty fast. By comparison I was shocked to see that the Philippines had made less tests than our tiny country of Luxembourg. The question is now that so many have lost their jobs, will they still be able to finance the treatments if they get tested positive? I know that the Trump administration came with a program to pay for it, but as far as I know it only covers either insured people (by paying their insurance company) or those under Medicare/Medicaid, or am I mistaken here?