Bangalore has 12M residents and only 385 Covid-19 cases

Re:Bangalore has 12M residents and only 385 Covid-19 cases by pavs on Thursday June 04, 2020 @08:24AM (#23415663)

No one in Bangladesh believes Bangladesh's low death number. I live here. Freedom of the press is non-existent (al-most all press/media is owned by government party). There are actual laws that say that you can't say anything against the government online (many have been prosecuted for this).

There is literally only 1 party - all other parties are destroyed, their members arrested or banned, jailed on real or fake cases.

Bangladesh's health care has been horrible even before the pandemic. Air pollution is extremely high. We don't have the infrastructure to handle so many patients - private hospitals are having a hard time handling patients. Public hospitals are even worse. Central oxygen is almost non-existent, lack of proper PPE, masks or proper testing. They only recently started ramping up tests - but the numbers are still very low.

Even with all the hiding and misinformation by the government, the official number is still climbing at an alarming rate.

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Re:Bangalore has 12M residents and only 385 Covid-19 cases by ImaCake on Thursday June 04, 2020 @08:38AM (#23415780)

I fear that we in the west will simply not even know that this catastrophy is occuring all over the third world. Maybe in a few years we will find out just how terrible this pandemic was.

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Re:Bangalore has 12M residents and only 385 Covid-19 cases by ithkuil on Thursday June 04, 2020 @09:10AM (#23416100)

I genuinely wonder if there is any data that backs the hypothesis what countries where the current health and healthcare conditions are already very poor are showing low numbers of symptomatic covid-19 cases because most people who are susceptible to disease have already succumbed to other diseases over the years.

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Re:Bangalore has 12M residents and only 385 Covid-19 cases by mritchie712 on Thursday June 04, 2020 @09:16AM (#23416150)

Also, testing. Testing is hard to get in the US. We are obviously fucking up in many ways ATM, but if you can't get testing here when you want it, imagine getting it in a poor country with inadequate healthcare.

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Re:Bangalore has 12M residents and only 385 Covid-19 cases by Jommi on Thursday June 04, 2020 @10:00AM (#23416623)

In my anecdotal experience I haven't seen it hard. Lots of counties in California are offering free testing for anyone. Not to mention commercial testing has been open for anyone for months now.

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Re:Bangalore has 12M residents and only 385 Covid-19 cases by perl4ever on Thursday June 04, 2020 @07:33PM (#23423271)

I'm not sure what you are comparing it to.

The US has had more testing per capita than New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, or Canada.

Compared to countries like India and Bangladesh, the US has had well over an order of magnitude more testing.

I'm looking at the main chart, second to last column, at https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

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