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Re:Fed to inject $1.5T to prevent ‘unusual disruptions’ in m... by chrisco255 on Thursday March 12, 2020 @06:09PM (#22562413)
South Korea has 8,000 active cases, over 114 today alone. Singapore has a population of 5.8M. They've got 178 cases. The U.S. has a population of 320M with 1338 cases. That means their infection rate is nearly 10x higher than the U.S. Meanwhile, we are taking action. Shutting down European travel, Chinese travel, cancelling schools, cancelling NBA season, NHL season, etc, etc...We are taking aggressive steps.
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Re:Fed to inject $1.5T to prevent ‘unusual disruptions’ in m... by ceejayoz on Thursday March 12, 2020 @06:32PM (#22562631)
> That means their infection rate is nearly 10x higher than the U.S.

No, it probably doesn't. It probably reflects the fact that we're not finding folks, because we're not testing enough.

Ohio's (Republican, incidentally) governor, for example, is stating that their five confirmed cases likely indicate 100,000 undetected in the community so far: https://twitter.com/GovMikeDeWine/status/1238177953126604801

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Re:Fed to inject $1.5T to prevent ‘unusual disruptions’ in m... by chrisco255 on Thursday March 12, 2020 @09:32PM (#22563925)
Look, we can only debate about confirmed cases. You can speculate as to whether there are more or less undetected in one country or another but that's just going to be a bunch of hypothetical posturing leading nowhere.
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Re:Fed to inject $1.5T to prevent ‘unusual disruptions’ in m... by ceejayoz on Thursday March 12, 2020 @11:30PM (#22564476)
A country 1/7 our size has done 25x the testing.

If you don't think that affects how our numbers net out, I'm not sure we can have a rational discussion beyond here.

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Re:Fed to inject $1.5T to prevent ‘unusual disruptions’ in m... by chrisco255 on Friday March 13, 2020 @12:28AM (#22564721)
Source?
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Re:Fed to inject $1.5T to prevent ‘unusual disruptions’ in m... by ceejayoz on Friday March 13, 2020 @09:38AM (#22567135)
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/12/815097813/experts-credit-sout...

> In terms of per capita testing, Korea has run 3,600 tests per 1 million population. In contrast, U.S. has just run five tests per 1 million people.

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Re:Fed to inject $1.5T to prevent ‘unusual disruptions’ in m... by neurocline on Saturday March 14, 2020 @01:09AM (#22573334)
We had 1300 cases. Now it's over 2000. It will be well over 5000 by next week. It does not look like other countries have higher infection rates than the U.S., but nearly similar.
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