We definitley need to be testing like S Korea 20,000 or more a day. If for no other reason then to stop the panic an alarmist. The major learning from S Korea is that the fatality rate is not as high as thought-theirs is .008, bad but not panic territory
Surprising isn’t it that this panic was not sounded in 2009 when H7N7 virus killed over 12,00 US citizens?
As more test are done you will see more confirmed cases abut death rate dropping as it already has started to do that’s because it is more mild than reported for most people and so far only serious cases get counted for the most part. There will be more deaths, it might even surpass the 12,461 deaths in US in 2009 from H7N9 aka swine flu.
But the fatality rate for COVID 19 is nowhere near as high as some alarmist make it out to be. That is why no one, repeat ZERO under the age of 10 has died anywhere in the world.
The country that has done the most testing that can be relied upon is S Korea , they have tested well over 250,000 and have 7,869 cases and 66 deaths for a fatality rate of .008 or less than 1%. That is more than the flu but nothing like what some are reporting here and in the news.
As a matter of fact if you add up the top 15 countries with reported cases excluding China, Italy and Iran ) you get over 20,446 cases and 247 deaths for a fatality rate of .012-about 1%. It’s probably even lower and more in line with S Korea as many cases are even more mild go unreported.
Imagine if “testing centers” opened tomorrow.
How many riots would occur, how many more people would get sick waiting in line, stories about how the testing centers are in white areas, only white people are getting tested, how many false negs, false positives, how many people would react harshly over the results.
By the time results came in, the danger would have passed.
It’s a lose/lose/lose.
Testing people who exhibit symptoms only makes sense.
H7N9 was the bird flu, 2013.
But you’re right about the panic now compared to 2009. Look at who was president at the time.