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Re:NY launches live dashboard of each regions progress hitti... by qotgalaxy on Monday May 11, 2020 @11:59PM (#23150471)
But none of that matters. You have x number of people, you need y number of tests. Just because it's harder to do doesn't mean you need to do it any less.
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Re:NY launches live dashboard of each regions progress hitti... by xienze on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @08:06AM (#23153056)
> But none of that matters.

Yes it does, it’s proportionally more difficult. If you want a country of 300M to have as many tests per capita as a country of 30M, you need _ten times as many tests_.

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Re:NY launches live dashboard of each regions progress hitti... by ceejayoz on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @07:57PM (#23161644)
That's not what "proportionally" means.
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