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SvennoJ on 25 May 2020
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JRPGfan said:

US is gonna hit 100k today isnt it? Its only 700 away.
Its a monday so the small dip in testing during the weekend (sat,sun) will be gone, and it'll have more than 1k deaths again.

Also holy cow at Brazil's poor testing.
They have only tested like 700,000 people in a 212+ million country.
And they found 365,000+ confirmed cases.

That means more than half the people they test, are actually infected.
WHO said a meassure of good testing, was testing enough to find 1 infected pr 10 tested.
Basically Brazil is only testing 1/5th the amount it needs (or less than that).
You have no idea how many are actually infected with their current dat, because of the poor testing.

I assumed Brazil was a more wealthy country than say Mexico, india.. ect.
But their testing is basically just as bad.

This is like that situation in Mexico were reported mortality is likely only 1/8th or something of its actual number.
However even mexico is doing better with testing than Brazil! O_o  (their only finding 1/3 of the people they test infected)

Yeah 100K total deaths today in the USA :/
North America is a few days away from taken over as the worst hit continent.
Brazil a few days or maybe a week away from taken over the USA for most cases per day.

3 day averages atm are (with the weekend dip)

World: 101.6K new cases per day, 110% week over week
South America: 27,7K per day,  131% week over week (Brazil 17.6K per day, 135% week over week)
North America: 27.5K per day, 99.1% week over week (USA 21.9K per day, 95.8% week over week)
Europe: 17.8K new cases per day, 83.8% week over week (Russia 8.9K per day, 89.7% week over week)


With better testing Brazil would likely already be ahead. Testing in the USA or rather counting also needs to handled better.
https://globalnews.ca/news/6980827/coronavirus-cdc-test-data-confusion/
Different ways of reporting, lumping different kinds of test results together to make the decline look better, manipulating numbers to favor re-openings etc.

Here they now want to blame the people for not getting tested lol

https://globalnews.ca/news/6972132/ontario-coronavirus-testing-public/

The Ontario government has been under fire for not reaching its daily benchmark for coronavirus testing often enough, but health officials have now hinted that the public may also share the blame.

People can now get tested if they have less severe ‘typical’ symptoms like runny nose, sore throat and nausea — but can also qualify if they feel ‘atypical’ symptoms, such as headaches, an unexplained fast heart rate, unexplained falls, fatigue or even pink eye. Ontario’s chief medical officer Dr. David Williams suggested Thursday that the public might not be aware of the expanded criteria for testing and the government needs to do a better job of communicating it.

Testing centers have continued to send people away that did not fit the profile. Now far less people feel like there's any point in getting tested. Anti body tests are also not available, just the nasal swab. Finding mild community cases is still off the agenda... Front line workers and people at risk do still get tested plenty, with about 400 new detected cases a day out of 11K tests a day.