The U.S. Now Leads the World in Confirmed Coronavirus Cases
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Im tempted to believe that China has lied about their cases. Theres a city in China with 1054 recovered but only 4 deaths. Seems odds
But the reality is the US delayed the various lock downs longer than it should have, actively prevented testing, and even today is not able to do regular and free drive through testing of everyone (which other countries are doing). If anything I expect that the US gov reports are understating the counts.
Oh definitely, just not as much as before. Testing went from impossible to "if you're lucky".
US (327mil) has 5.4x the population of Italy (60mil).
Italy, Spain, France, Germany, and UK combined have about the same population as the US. Across those countries there's 193k COVID-19 cases.
Not sure how the tens of millions of people losing jobs and businesses going to be affected in coming months.