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Originally Posted by freebeard
It was 6pm yesterday when I pointed to a news wars story that was roundly rejected. Is this source any better?
https://covidtracking.com/data/
Currently: US Totals
Positive
122,157
Negative
644,604
Pending
Hospitalized
17,046
Death
2,056
Total test results
766,761
Positive + Negative
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Well the White House said on the 25th that 370,000 tests had been done in the USA. Maybe we did another 400K tests in 6 days.
The raw number isn't that important. What is important in the percentage of the population and that everyone that is suspected can get tested. We aren't there yet.
"As of Wednesday, South Korea, which has a population of 51 million, had conducted 357,896 tests, based on reports from the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Comparatively, the United States, with a population of 329 million, had administered at least 418,810 tests, according to the Covid Tracking Project, a group led by Alexis Madrigal, a staff writer for The Atlantic magazine, with more than 100 volunteers that compiles coronavirus testing data from state government websites and government officials."
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/25/polit...eck/index.html
In that snapshot in time South Korea had tested 0.7% of their population while the USA had tested 0.1% of our population
Another article talking about testing per capita among different countries and by individual US state.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...ng-states.html