South Korea has more than doubled since Friday. Italy has more than tripled. Iran has almost quadrupled. The United States has increased by 75%. Japan has increased 20%.
According to Johns Hopkins CSSE:
2/28/20 11:23 am:
South Korea - 2337
Italy - 655
Iran - 388
United States - 60
Japan - 228
3/2/20 10:33 pm:
South Korea - 4812
Italy - 2036
Iran - 1501
United States - 105
Japan - 274
On the other hand, Japan
the higher numbers reflect earlier seeding.
The important question is are they “new” cases, or existing illness just found with expanded testing?
I think Japan was having testing problems same as US.
japan apparently learned the trick to keep cases low - don’t test.
it has to be rampant there. can they suppress death tolls? they are a critical early data source for a westernized country.