The total number of global coronavirus cases on Saturday surpassed 80 million as countries around the world are experiencing surges of the disease amid the holiday season.
According to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University, about 472,000 new COVID-19 cases were recorded on Christmas Day globally, with the number of deaths due to the virus now standing at more than 1.75 million.
The U.S. far surpasses other countries in the number of total cases with more than 18.8 million infections as of Saturday. The U.S. is followed by India with nearly 10.2 million cases and Brazil, which has recorded 7.4 million infections.
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Three countries, the US, India, abd Brazil account for almost half of the world's cases. The US alone shows at almost double the cases of India who is in the number 2 position. The three largest hot spots are the US, Europe, and India. Everywhere else appears to have only a very few small hot spots. In other words everywhere but the US, India, and Europe this is well under control.
ReplyDeleteWhat is the difference between the US, Europe, India, and Brazil with the rest of the world and how can we bring cases down in the US, Brazil, Europe, and India?
It is easy to ascertain what will NOT work to bring cases down. This is "lockdowns." The US endured some of the most brutal of these in the world and strictly looking at the numbers this hasn't helped. Some states such as CA and NY have yet to fully lift the lockdowns yet cases are still rising.
While I can't explain the situations kn Europe, India, and Brazil, I do have a good idea of what's going on in America. 1.) The resources spent on contract tracing has been enormous enabling us to find vast numbers of asypmtomatic people who probably aren't spreading the disease anyway. 2.) Anyone, anywhere, at almost anytime can get a rapid results test at a negligible price. Due to the fear that surrounds this people even if they aren't sick are lining up on droves to get tested meaning we're bound to find more cases. 3.) According to my contacts who work in testing the current tests we use are very prone to yield "false positives" with "false negatives" being almost non existent. 4.) There are substantial financial incentives in the system fie both positive test results and deaths from COVID-19. This provides strong incentives to inflate both positive tests and deaths from this.
Essentially eliminate the financial incentives to overstate cases and deaths, scale back contract tracing to a normal level similar to how it's done elsewhere in the world, and fix the test kits so they aren't overly prone to "false positive" results and we will see a dramatic drop in cases very quickly.
Finally a positive test result is simply that. It doesn't mean someone has the disease nor are they spreading it.