Mnementh on 14 April 2020
| haxxiy said: Italy had 27% less test results today than yesterday. Accordingly, there were 29% less confirmed cases today. You don't have an epidemic if you don't test people, am I right?
Although, to be fair, these are missing just about everywhere. Even in Iceland, where they were doing a very good job at mass testing people (10% of the population!) |
Most countries have criteria for testing. Something like symptoms and contact to known infected. If the number of tests goes down it means fewer people are meeting this criteria. This is by far not bulletproof and broad testing without preconditions would be better, but it probably still means the number of infected is slowly going down.
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