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Does Marseille test more than France? It is expected no one is hitting a 9.5% death rate unless they quit testing almost all but the severe or dead.

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It's the most heavily tested area of the world [0], and also the only place where everyone who is positive gets a treatment (hydroxychloroquine + azithromycine). Other protocols are listed here [1]

Regarding status, it seems the peak is being reached there [2]

[0] https://twitter.com/raoult_didier/status/1245978149206228992...

[1] https://twitter.com/raoult_didier/status/1242808646997880832...

[1] https://twitter.com/raoult_didier/status/1246003916325748736...

1% is about expected at that point, since there is a 14 day lag on average and CFR can only go up over time after new cases trail off, it should end up higher. Look how South Korea eventually rose from .7% to 1.8% (somewhat biased by lots of young people infected early, but most of the rise at least from 1% to 1.8% was just due to the lags involved).

Maybe it is still a good number for their population age demographics and the treatment helps a lot, but it doesn't seem to be showing it to be anything like a game changer.

It's a narrow viewpoint to only see it through the lens of death percentage.

Of course it is a game-changer.

You eradicate the viral load after 6 days instead of 20+. Meaning :

- reduced contagion (avoiding big peak of infections), no confinement needed, so the better for the economy - you avoid complications, meaning less load on hospital, so you can save a lot of people who would have died otherwise. - people get better in less time so less damage to their finances.

> You eradicate the viral load after 6 days instead of 20+. Meaning

There would be many less deaths if so.

Sorry, I misunderstood this, I thought the data was Marseille vs the rest of France based on the wording, not one hospital in Marseille vs others in Marseille.

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