Navigator wrote:
As far as testing is concerned, the US has tested more people than any other country (about 2 million tests to date, compared to about 375 thousand tests by South Korea with the US rate now being 110,000 per day). A more important question might be why was the US response slow (instead of US I could insert England, Italy, France, Spain - in fact, pretty much any country other than China)? Every country in the world, except China, treated this like they treated all other recent epidemics, i.e. Ebola, Swine Flu, Seasonal Flu - none of which combined the extremely rapid spread with a relatively high mortality rate. In other words, every country, except China, used all the expertise they had attained from other epidemics to guide them in their actions against Covid-19 and all were woefully inadequate in their response - except China. It makes me wonder just exactly what it was that China knew about this particular virus that caused it to react, unlike every other country in the world, immediately and extremely aggressively, not to inform the rest of the world about what was coming, but to contain the spread internally.
As far as testing is concerned, the US has tested ... (
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Korea, Japan, Russia, Taiwan, and numerous other nations were not slow to respond...
Korea and Japan have been able to limit the number of tests needed because the caught it early...
Testing more than another nation is not something to be proud of... Containing the spread is something to be proud of...
There are still people who can't get tested in the US... This is not true for many nations...