re: Italy numbers vs USA numbers at same time frame in dealing with the virus

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The majority of them relied on public transportation and lived in more clustered communities that interacted with each other more.

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that is irrelevant. There is a much high percentage of Chinese workers in and around Italy.

China's Belt and Road plan

Not to tag on your thread but the Johns Hopkins tracker says 300+ dead

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Because YNWA would absolutely sacrifice you, your family, and most other individuals for political purposes, such as getting Trump out of office.

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There.



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Thats not an appropriate way to compare data. You need to normalize to a certain infection point (say the day when the countries each reached 150 infections) and then plot the rates of infection starting from there. If you do that, you will see that our rate of infection from patient 150 and forward matches Italy's almost identically and is even starting to exceed.

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Is that rate of actual infection or exposure, illness onset, or date confirmed by testing? And were daily test quantities at same levels? And were those using same timing?

For test quantities CDC had switched to date they received specimen from date specimen taken from patient when they were confirming all cases before the 14th which didn't make sense to me for something published (more internal on how quickly they were reviewed). I did like the CDC trying to track by illness onset especially with so many existing cases being tested a week or 2 after onset. WHO just reports net changes of totals and for US that had meant no changes on weekends since CDC wasn't updating confirmed case totals on weekends. It also meant it was completely based on when tests confirmed by CDC and not when patient tested or when illness & symptoms started for newly confirmed cases.

Collin County's 1 death so far wasn't tested until he died while already in hospital for existing conditions (not sure if they decided if existing or virus killed him), and he wasn't part of their counts until he was tested after he died. It seems likely he was sick for a while, but i have wondered if they will figure out when or treat as both newly infected/illness onset and death at exact same time or death before confirmed test (though i think it was same day and reported same day). How reports handle dates of this stuff including total daily tests done wont matter as much looking back afterwards but right back & during testing ramp up it can affect comparisons.

I keep meaning to looking at Hopkins on a computer to see if they offer additional ways to sort all their data.

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If so than the comparison is valid

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Ugh

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wailing

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Don’t use words you don’t understand.
And apparently you can’t answer the question

USA
340 Deaths
26,747 infected 12am EST 3/2220

Italy Infections at same time frame. 10,149
Deaths. 631

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We are now 2nd in the world in test per capita and will be first in a few days

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No we aren’t and no we won’t be

As already pointed out to you, we also have 5x the population