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by leereeves 2278 days ago
South Korea, with one-sixth the population of the US, peaked at 10,000 cases. We haven't passed that per capita case load - and even if we do, lower population density should make it easier to get the virus under control in the US (except in NYC).
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Symmetry 2278 days ago
We're still a long way from Korea's testing capability. Mass use of surgical masks in public probably also helps.
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leereeves 2278 days ago
On Friday, March 20, The Atlantic said over 100,000 people in the US have been tested.[1] More recently, Mike Pence said 250,000 people have been tested.

We're a few days away from Korea's testing capability, if we haven't already matched it.

I think southeast Asia in general handles pandemics better. The people know how to respond and do so more quickly than Americans. Wearing masks, not going on spring break, etc.

1: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/how-many-...

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Symmetry 2278 days ago
300 tests per million people is much, much better than we were a week before that.. But South Korea is at 6,000.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid19-tests-per-million...

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leereeves 2278 days ago
Those are old numbers. Roche alone is sending out 400k test kits per week (over 1000 per million people).[1]

According to [2], more than 290,000 Americans have been tested for the coronavirus (close to 1000 per million people) and in Washington and New York, over 3000 people per million have been tested.

What is South Korea's testing capability (tests per week)? They've had several weeks to get a lead in absolute number of tests performed, but if they've only done 6000 per million people in all that time, we've probably matched them in testing capability.

1: https://diagnostics.roche.com/us/en/news-listing/2020/roche-...

2: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/one-map-shows-how-many-cor...

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