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1 posted on 03/28/2020 1:01:09 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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case numbers is that they largely reflect the amount of testing that has been done. Brian continues:

With the significant ramp in US testing (526,000 tests were run this past week), it is also reasonable to start comparing relative per capita case rates across countries. Again, the US is doing well relative to Western Europe. Except for the UK, the US has fewer reported cases per capita than every Western European country. Some will argue that our per capita test rate is too low to make such a comparison legitimate. Since the number of per capita tests run in the US is now comparable or better to every European country other than Italy’s and Germany’s, that argument is losing weight. Tracking case rates over the next few weeks will tell us a lot.

Finally, it is interesting to note that, outside of New York, the percentage of positive tests relative to total tests run is only 12%. This is comparable to the level the CDC reports for flu tests. The outlier, of course, is New York. Over 30% of all tests report a positive result. This test positive rate is relevant because epidemiologists use it in their models to project the true incidence of an infectious disease in a population. With the convergence of test positive rates for Wuhan virus and influenza in most parts of the country, better projections of total infection rates should follow.


2 posted on 03/28/2020 1:02:03 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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L8r


3 posted on 03/28/2020 1:03:49 PM PDT by preacher ( Journalism no longer reports news, they use news to shape our society.)
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Not gonna go down well with the WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE! crowd here.


4 posted on 03/28/2020 1:06:41 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Prayers for Rush)
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We don’t know how many people have been infected with the virus. Many prior to third week of March weren’t even looked at for the virus. The flu was often the given possible cause. This is a panic over not much.


5 posted on 03/28/2020 1:07:02 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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So we are comparing the death rate, per capita of San Marino to the per capita of the US? Ok. That makes no sense. Especially when it’s just getting started here.

Articles like this are just intellectually weak.


7 posted on 03/28/2020 1:08:30 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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It would be good to see a few days in a row where the number of deaths decrease from the day before. Once we start moving away from the “exponentially spiking death rate” narrative, maybe some of the panic will subside.


9 posted on 03/28/2020 1:10:45 PM PDT by CatOwner
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Shhhh. Don’t tell anyone. Some here at FR don’t like data


11 posted on 03/28/2020 1:14:28 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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‘The total number of Wuhan virus cases in the US surpassed the total in any other country yesterday.’

I say bullshit. I don’t trust a damn word any media outlet says. They are all stooges for the UN and China.

This is nothing but hysteria to see how much they could get away with.. a test run of sorts.


19 posted on 03/28/2020 1:22:15 PM PDT by Rebel Egg
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Blue state governors, mayors, and their media have created within their state fear, anxiety, anger and emotional overload. The media closes off all outside information if its good and feeds the death and destruction 24/7. Trumps news briefings were on fox and no other, no ABC,CBS,NBC. The rat leaders are scrambling to get ahead of the corrupt ineptness and incompetence they ALL have in common. Cuomo screamed we need 40,000 ventilators! where are they? 4000 in jersey and he said we don’t need them right now. What are they telling us? Are we fn IDIOTS? THEY FAILED THERE PEOPLE MISERABLY but the media will praise them as saviors


29 posted on 03/28/2020 1:29:19 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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Rate Over the past week (confirmed vs dead):
1.36%
1.27%
1.42%
1.51%
1.51%
1.63%
1.77%


38 posted on 03/28/2020 1:38:54 PM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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That’s so ignorant. Most of the cases haven’t resolved, yet. They don’t die or recover on the first day.


54 posted on 03/28/2020 2:14:09 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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Why does America now have more cases than China, which has 3x our population?


56 posted on 03/28/2020 2:15:42 PM PDT by FormerFRLurker (Keep calm and vote your conscience.)
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If we’re going to play that game, let’s just compare deaths to recoveries. 1,993 / 3,229 = ~62% death rate. There. ;D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic#Epidemiology

United States

Cases 120,059

Deaths 1,993

Recoveries 3,229


57 posted on 03/28/2020 2:17:22 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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I’ll say it again today - plain old influenza we get every year, even twice a year, infects milli9ns and kills tens of thousands. And we have vaccines for that.

We is the panic, shut downs, edicts from our overlords, massive bureaucracy stimulus, trillions spent?

The doom and gloom folks can kiss my ass. Stay at home and shut you businesses down if you want. Leave Mr the F/$# alone you sheeple.


67 posted on 03/28/2020 2:41:14 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Might as well cut your leg off to cure a headache. Destroy America because of a flu.)
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It’s a fraud, a fakery, a bunch of non-sense.
Most people have fallen for it hook, line, and sinker.
Americans at one time doubted such snake oil promotion. But now they cower in their homes and pray for the government to save them.


95 posted on 03/28/2020 4:56:19 PM PDT by 9422WMR (SCAMDEMIC 2020 Everybody be Kung Flu fighting!)
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“The total number of Wuhan virus cases in the US surpassed the total in any other country yesterday. “

Not really. Before the Chinese goverment locked down Wuhan millions had traveled about that nation. The Chinese government is lying.


98 posted on 03/28/2020 6:37:04 PM PDT by cpdiii
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Can’t have this conversation without RGIII.

The press ruins these kids as much as anything else, along with ownership, especially in the case of RGIII.


100 posted on 03/28/2020 8:05:37 PM PDT by nicollo (I said no!)
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U.S. COVID-19 DEATH RATE REMAINS LOW


Define “low”.
Why do you choose that point for your definition?

This is just putting the goalpost on wheels.


103 posted on 03/29/2020 1:10:06 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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