Coronavirus: Brazil overtakes Spain and Italy as new cases grow

bbc.com

21 pointsfinphil5 comments

I wish everyone would use per capita when referencing the number of infected and deaths for comparison. It makes no sense to compare total numbers.

Truthfulness isn’t the most important thing when writing these sensation pieces.

Not just per capita, but what we need to look at is the ratio of number of test done to number of positives.

Otherwise a country that does close to no testing might have the illusion of doing very well, just like a country doing tons of tests might have the illusion of doing very poorly (like the US, whose ratio of positive has been declining for 1.5 months but number of cases is rather flat due to ever increasing testing)

That’s BS. We are way ahead of the US already. Real numbers are around 12x according to Fio Cruz institute.

All the 'case' numbers have no basis in reality.

For starters, every country has their own definitions and testing strategies. Then an overwhelming majority of cases are asymptomatic and almost never show up in official numbers.

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