South Korea has tested 140k people for the coronavirus. The US: 1,500 people.
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A part of me wants to say “no shit. Fatality rate = death/known cases.” Of course the rate goes down when the denominator increases. Am I missing something here?
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/after-missteps-cd...
There are over 100 labs in the US that are able to develop these sorts of tests, but the CDC told them not to, and to wait for the CDC kit, which turned out to not work. The CDC also required such narrow criteria to get a test that few qualified. This meant many went untested.
How would this have been different than with a nationalized health system? It wouldn't.