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Re:Tell HN: How USA school closure seems to be working out by davidw on Saturday March 07, 2020 @12:57PM (#22512926)
A population that skews old is part of it.

This site is good for up to date, and fairly detailed numbers about Italy: https://lab24.ilsole24ore.com/coronavirus/

They are doing a pretty good job of testing: 4000 yesterday. Oregon, by comparison, has the capacity to test about 40 a day.

Edit: also, they are not being "drastic" enough in Italy.

Scenes from a ski area: https://ladige.it/news/cronaca/2020/03/07/come-previsto-oggi...

Stay home, or if you want to go out, go for a walk in the woods or something, but don't go where it's crowded.

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Re:Tell HN: How USA school closure seems to be working out by votepaunchy on Saturday March 07, 2020 @02:36PM (#22513517)
Note that the population of Italy is 15x that of Oregon, so the proportional rate of testing is much closer.
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Re:Tell HN: How USA school closure seems to be working out by davidw on Saturday March 07, 2020 @03:57PM (#22513987)
It isn't, though, it's an still an order of magnitude less in Oregon.

4.2 million, 40 tests per day 60 million, 5700 tests yesterday

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