(05-22-2020, 08:03 PM)Deesse23 Wrote: tl;dr
I think the USs reaction to SARS-CoV2 is mixed. Not too bad, but not stellar either, especially considering the early warning time it had from looking at the outbreak in Europe (Italy). It may hve flattened the peak better than Italy for example. The (near) future will however be crucial, since the US seems to want to open up while the virus isnt even properly contained, and summing up over time the US might suffer more than Italy etc in the long run.
Completely agree with Mr. Greene
The U.S. has vastly more uninhabited land than those three countries and the population is 83% urban, so there isn't a huge disparity in effective population density.
As far as being useful, the number of deaths relative to population and the rate relative to infections measure two completely different things. The former is a measure of effectiveness in prevention, the latter a measure of treatment effectiveness.
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