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by Lucadg 2295 days ago
Numbers per country in general are really hard to evaluate as there is no standard for anything.

Confirmed cases: heavily dependent on tested people. 1500 in US vs 100k in S. Korea makes the comparison useless. Also, who is tested? In Italy they started testing only symptomatic people after a while. China has changed the parameters a few times in these last weeks.

Deaths: are all deceased people tested?

Recoveries: what constitutes as a recovery? Highly variable on a per country basis.

I wonder if WHO has published some standards.