COVID-19 & US healthcare system - thread relapse

[robkelk]

I'm looking at the current numbers between California and Canada - two places with roughly equal populations in roughly-equal demographic distributions.

There might be something to that "they're finding more because they're testing more" claim. It doesn't explain the discrepancy in the death rate, though.

Or maybe there isn't something to the "they're finding more because they're testing more" claim.

Let's look at the percentage of positive tests per state, over the last seven days. Since we're looking at a percentage, it doesn't matter how many tests are being carried out.




In comparison, Montreal (the current epicentre of the outbreak in Canada) has spiked all the way up to 3% positive tests - a rate higher than New Hampshire's is a health crisis here.