And Texas Caves In
The last bastion of sanity has jumped on the "stay at home" bandwagon. They just sent me an email that they have closed all state parks to save the 1% who may die from the dreaded super virus. Texas...
Forum Discussion
pianotuna wrote:The US has performed more tests than any other nation. That is likely the reason there are numerically more cases in the US than elsewhere. Also, the US have multiple times the population of almost all the other countries that are reporting. Only China, which has very questionable data at best and India which is very poor and has very limited testing ability have greater populations than the US. It is, and will continue to be, an impossibility to test all 350 Million citizens. And testing has it's limitations. It only provides a snapshot of infection. You can be tested at noon today and become infected by 12:01 PM. In many ways an increase in cases is good. It shows that herd immunity is becoming closer to a reality. The truly important data is hospital admissions, since that tracks the severe cases. Those have leveled off and are decreasing in many of the worst areas. Millions of new confirmed cases and no hospital admissions would be an ideal scenario.
What worries me most is that USA is finding over 1/3 of all new cases world wide, in spite of low testing numbers. That has been going on for some time.
