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Tuesday, 03/10/2020 8:03:30 AM

Tuesday, March 10, 2020 8:03:30 AM

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That's retorical, right?

When primarily hospitalized 'bad' cases are tested, due to lack of testing kits and probably lack of will, chance you get deaths from those cases is of course higher.

I live in Belgium: 267 confirmed cases (including 28 cases added the last 24h). No deaths.

Why not? Probably because all cases until some days ago came back from holiday (primarily skying) in Italie, as did a lot of the cases in Europe by the way. People aged 80+ don't go skying...
Since a week or so we have some local spreading without a link to Italy.

Hundreds were tested each day, now less, and when positive quarantined.
Testing occured firstly only when syptoms where quite indicative of Covid but then testing was more wide. Quarantined people are informed and followed up closely (by phone).

(Actually the biggest issue here is the lack of qualitative mond masks for medical personnel because the pharmacies were 'plundered' when the outbreak in China took such a drastic form. Chinese peoplee (and others) bought all masks to send them to relatives in China...)

When in the US you have a high death/positive case ratio I guess it could mean you are in an Iran scenario. Death to positive case ratio there was almost 10% in the early days of Corona. Negationism? Protectionism? Just a lack of testing? Healthcare system not up to par? After some weeks the Iran ratio started to stabilize: it's now 267 deaths on 7161 positives.

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