We Can Thank Trump for the United States Having Such a Low Per Capita Infection Rate of Coronavirus...
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Posted on 03/07/2020 12:43:12 PM PST by SeekAndFind
There are ten countries that have more than 100 confirmed cases of the coronavirus, but the United States has the smallest infection rate per capita of all of them by a significant margin.
According to figures provided by the World Health Organization (WHO), the ten countries with 100 or more cases, as of Thursday, are as follows:
Taking population into account, the United States has a per capita infection rate of 0.0000388 percent. The next highest per capita infection rate is Japan's, which, at 0.0002526 percent, is eight times higher than the United States' rate. South Korea and China have the highest per capita infection rates at 0.0111237 percent and 0.0057763 percent respectively.
Last month health experts begrudgingly admitted that Trump's strategy for dealing with the outbreak saved lives. Trump was quick to ban travel with China, despite opposition from WHO. Trump has also had to deal with Democrats shamelessly politicizing the outbreak, even though Trump's response to the coronavirus has been far more effective than Obama's was for the H1N1 virus. As CNN reported, Obama didn't declare the H1N1 virus a national emergency until "millions of people in the United States [had] been infected," and over 1,000 had died.
The number of cases for coronavirus are likely to increase, but it's clear from these numbers that Trump's strategy for containing the spread of infection has been extraordinarily effective,
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This post won’t age well
Now this is the kind of winning I can live with.
We also benefit from the fact that this country isn’t as densely populated as many countries.
Says the always concern troll
i think the south korea numbers are a special case and deceptive — they are so high in part because they are testing drastically more than everyone else.
Probably also part of why their reported death rate is lower than others at .6 percent
Infection rates will get much, much higher. However, long term the real story will turn out to be how mild it is for the general population.
We also benefit from the fact that this country isn’t as densely populated as many countries.
true..
but the CDC was caught flat footed..
by the way we have only tested 1583 people so far
and now 396 cases
TRUMP is doing fine at this... but this is garbage unicorns and skittles.
We are early days. Itll be a month or two before we can talk about how we are doing per capita.
Stopping travel from China was exactly the right thing to do.
Then the CDC dropped th ball with testing.
We have only done a total of 2000 tests nationally.
We have NO IDEA WHAT THE NUMBER OF CASES IN THE US IS.
And that number will double every 2-4 days.
Imagine how much better it would be if we had single payer. /s
The OP is completely meaningless given the rapid spreading rate and the fact of the pandemic beginning in China (i.e. having a head start there). I concur that the OP is not going to age well. It’s a low-information, low-thought post.
Says the always concern troll
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not a troll...
we are reacting too slow...Trump did the right thing with the Travel Ban but nobody has the will to do what needs to be done...
what about Italy? They just locked 1/6 of the country down
Planes still landing here..
The test kit issue should have been cleared up weeks ago like many of us “concern trolls” were screaming
This glaring omission would fall on the health agencies and not on the politicians. -Tom
Tests are an upper limit on cases.
No test, no case!
Yeah, Rod Rosenstein’s sister. Not doing her job
This is reality.
I refuse to live in fear of this, or predict the worst case outcome.
My thinking is if this was the catastrophic pandemic some are predicting....we should be seeing MUCH worse numbers by now. It’s March. I believe there isn’t yet one single case in Ohio.
yeah agree
we really don’t know what the infection rate is here
I bet it’s already rampant in the shit-soaked streets of San Francisco, and we just don’t know it.
Matt Margolis is trying to compare infections counts/rates of countries at different stages of the COVID-19 infection.
Normalize the data so a more meaningful comparison can be made.
So it seems sort of useless to compare as Margolis is attempting to do.
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