Looks like the UK is not able to control their populace:
Coronavirus: Sadiq Khan warns 'stop Tube travel or more will die'
No, because that's only one day's worth of data and it largely reflects NY not continuing the crazy case acceleration they've had, plus, in parallel, the rest of the states (other than WA which had the first major outbreak) have not been testing as aggressively as NY and are also behind NY in timing, so we're not seeing a true reflection of actual cases yet. Unfortunately, CA, TX, IL, OH, FL etc. will likely start taking off soon (NJ already is), unless there's a "spring miracle" (seasonality of the virus causing slowing of transmission as things warm up in April).
It's not quibbling and it's not silly. Read my post on this. We have 6.5X more people and we started testing much later than SK - and we are doing nowhere near as good as they did on tracing contacts and quarantining positives and their contacts, which is why we're about to have far more deaths and hospitalizations per capita than SK did - within a week or two we'll likely have 10X the amount of deaths per capita than SK (we're even now).
I mean, in reality...because of the shutdowns and social distancing, I'm sure the actual number of new cases each day is probably decreasing now in most places. But as you noted above, I highly doubt that's being reflected in the official numbers which are largely driven by amount and location of testing. I know up here for the most part, they're only doing tests on (1) HCW who may have been exposed, (2) first responders who may have been exposed or are showing symptoms, and (3) patients with severe enough illness to require hospitalization. Maybe also some close contacts of confirmed cases but that's it.No, because that's only one day's worth of data and it largely reflects NY not continuing the crazy case acceleration they've had, plus, in parallel, the rest of the states (other than WA which had the first major outbreak) have not been testing as aggressively as NY and are also behind NY in timing, so we're not seeing a true reflection of actual cases yet. Unfortunately, CA, TX, IL, OH, FL etc. will likely start taking off soon (NJ already is), unless there's a "spring miracle" (seasonality of the virus causing slowing of transmission as things warm up in April).
You've obviously never worked in manufacturing operations... My company developed a testing assay in a matter of weeks and is now shipping to testing centers in NY. That was possible because we have already had testing platforms already in place at labs like Quest and labcore. That effort was significant. Now talk of asking companies like GM to make ventilators...that's ludicrous.
No, because that's only one day's worth of data and it largely reflects NY not continuing the crazy case acceleration they've had, plus, in parallel, the rest of the states (other than WA which had the first major outbreak) have not been testing as aggressively as NY and are also behind NY in timing, so we're not seeing a true reflection of actual cases yet. Unfortunately, CA, TX, IL, OH, FL etc. will likely start taking off soon (NJ already is), unless there's a "spring miracle" (seasonality of the virus causing slowing of transmission as things warm up in April).
Yes it is. The poster said it was "totally false" that the US tested more people than SK. Then, as evidence, he pulls out a totally different metric.
Show me something positive about the outbreak in the US and I'll applaud it. It's accelerating nearly everywhere and accelerating rapidly in about 8-10 states and we have a President who's talking about relaxing restrictions in <3 weeks, when we'll be reaching the peak case rates in many locations, which would be an historically bad decision and one which he can't really make, since the governors will laugh at him, but even the message is bad, as some people are going to likely take this less seriously because of that message.
Read my post. I agreed it was true, but then showed it was largely irrelevant and why.
