Re:Bangalore has 12M residents and only 385 Covid-19 cases
by ithkuil on Thursday June 04, 2020 @09:10AM
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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
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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.
Re:Bangalore has 12M residents and only 385 Covid-19 cases
by Jommi on Thursday June 04, 2020 @10:00AM
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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.
Re:Bangalore has 12M residents and only 385 Covid-19 cases
by perl4ever on Thursday June 04, 2020 @07:33PM
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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/