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JRPGfan on 20 July 2020
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Conina said:
EricHiggin said:

If multiple countries are dealing with the same illness, but one country does way more testing, won't they likely end up with more confirmed cases?

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.

Also the USA also counts anti body tests, in that number (which alot of other natons dont).

Like in denmark we have tested 230,000+ pr million.
Testing SHOULD be higher (pr million) the more cases you have.
And yet, you dont hear our prime minister saying "we're testing too much, slow down the testing"!

If you have a few people, and miss a few people, its not the end of the world. If you dont test for them.
If you have massive spread, and miss aton of people, its gonna make it sooo much worse. Thus as more people have it, testing should go up.

USA has more cases than anywere, and thus should be testing alot more (pr population) than other places.
Thats how you stop spread, you find those infected, and ask them to stay home and not go around infecting others.

Conina is 100% correct.

EricHiggin says some odd things sometimes.