It doesn’t explain how Hong Kong and South Korea got their testing ramped up so fast to very high volumes. Why weren’t we learning for what they were doing?
I saw video of some drive-thru testing somewhere in Asia. I surmise it was a temperature gun to the forehead.
No temperature, feel OK ? Yes... ...you’re good. ....no sympton, feel OK ?....you’re good, and so forth...
If you don’t have test kits in the desired numbers then you can’t test for the virus. Singapore and South Korea had the numbers so they tested.
Here in Washington state the University of Washington lab has tested over 4,300 as of today. Each day they find about 100 who test positive out of each thousand tested.
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.