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Re:The U.S. tried to build a new fleet of ventilators by zwily on Sunday March 29, 2020 @07:20PM (#22723662)
But the CFR is mostly just a function of how many people get tested, no? And Italy seems to only be testing at hospitalization.
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Re:The U.S. tried to build a new fleet of ventilators by greedo on Sunday March 29, 2020 @08:03PM (#22723916)
And how does Italy test the flu? In the US, there's minimal flu testing and most of the metrics are based around surveys.
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Re:The U.S. tried to build a new fleet of ventilators by SkyPuncher on Sunday March 29, 2020 @09:13PM (#22724334)
I'm not disagreeing with you. However, at this point, some of the flu estimates are actually inferred/modeled by the CDC.

The flu is a well-enough study disease that they're able to, relatively accurately, model population statistics based on a sub-set of tested patients.

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