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Barozi on 20 July 2020
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EricHiggin said:
Conina said:

USA: 146k tests per million

Germany: 82k tests per million

Italy: 103k tests per million

So the more tests could explain double of the known active cases at best , not 29x or 85x the number of known cases.

Well how accurate are the numbers? How accurate are any of the numbers? Clearly dying from another cause, and being counted as a covid death because it was also in their system at that time, certainly puts that into question. Hospitals being paid by the Gov for treating covid 19 patients when forced to slow or halt other medical treatments due to the pandemic? Based on covid 19 symptoms, which can be quite similar to other illnesses?

How many other uncertainties are out there? I'm sure I must have caught them all. Never miss a covimon.

Barozi said:

What kind of terrible analogy is that?

Where's the equivalent of the "same hourly wage" in your second example? There has to be something like "same positivity rate" in there, otherwise it's not even a valid analogy.

But then you'd need to realize that the country that does way more testing (US) also has a much higher positivity rate...

Same illness, that effects people differently, because people are different. Are all workers the same? Same quality? Same productivity?

No.

So you're saying that while the illness is the same, more US citizens are infected because they are less healthy in general compared to people in other 1st world countries. Got it.