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To: Solson
South Korea is urbanized dense, small, and with very modern infrastructure throughout.

You're wrong. That confirmed case to confirmed death rate.

Most cases of any flu GO UNREPORTED. So, the actual rate in SK is small fraction of that.

464 posted on 03/13/2020 6:08:37 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: Kazan
Most cases of any flu GO UNREPORTED. So, the actual rate in SK is small fraction of that.

Not true for SK. In addition to aggressively tracking down and testing anyone associated with any person who tested positive, they are randomly testing large numbers of non-symptomatic people, and have set up test stations where anyone can be tested for free and get results the next day. Over 200,000 tests. 200,000 tests goes way beyond "statistically significant. If there were large numbers of "unreported" cases, they would show up in these tests. For most other countries, your argument is almost certainly true, but not for SK. Also, asymptomatic cases are mostly a myth, and are actually "pre-symptomatic" cases found through contact tracking. Actual asymptomatic cases are about 1.2% according to the WHO.

565 posted on 03/13/2020 7:14:05 PM PDT by ETCM
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To: Kazan

No, because in SK they do exhaustive contact tracing. They are on it. So they know pretty much all the cases, symptomatic or not.


744 posted on 03/13/2020 9:43:14 PM PDT by calenel (Don't panic. Prepare and be vigilant.)
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