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widespread the virus was before they enacted shut down procedures which could not have contained it at that point. they are lying again as we all know about their numbers. But beyond that, we have been getting very good, widespread testing in the past week that you simply don't hear about from your biased news sources.

It is not epidemiologically possible for this claim to be true without the explanation of either bmore widespread testing in the US, lying by the Chinese about their number of cases, or both. Science.

case as confirmed case to publish. (But I believe you truly don't know it and most posters on this board don't know it). The way China counts is not cheating, it is just culture difference and different goal of testing. China's main goal of testing is to track the spread of the infected, search its connection routes, find its super spreader in order to suppress the epidemic. The goal is not to see who is sick. As a result of this way counting, China has 43K people who are tested positive but also are asymptomatic. These people are not included in the confirmed cases. So, using u.s. standard China's confirmed case should be 80k + 43k = 123k. We're not #1 yet. Obviously NYT reporter just can't wait.

There are a million other places the same thing is being reported if you need a source other than the NYT.

that you did. they know that it reflects either false data or excellent screening in the US, or both.

Either way, the number of REPORTED CASES is now the highest in the US. I'm proud say that we don't lead in deaths (not even close thanks to our superior health care system), and as the melting pot of the world with massive flow of illegal immigrants as well, we appear to be in far better shape than expected.

Big shout out to President Trump for buying us the time to get ramped up for this medical crisis for having the guts to shut down travel with China in a way that other country's leaders such as Italy did not. And he did this BEFORE the WHO even came to understand the real threat since they were believeing China's fake numbers.
Another shout out for his great organization and mgmt of this problem state side. The epidemic response program was never even developed or stockpiled by previous administrations. It was simply and understandably not anticipated. But Trump has jumped in a gotten things done.

And a final shout out to Trump for crafting such an incredibly robust economy, that it does not appear that we are going to go through a depression as would have happened if this had fit 4 years ago.

You personally actually owe Trump a lot. we all do.

Only by testing everyone can you know the true death rate. So the more testing you do, the lower the death rate looks compared to other places that are not detecting the milder cases.

DRO, don't surrender your scientific integrity to this reporter's sensationalism. You know what's important is fatality rate, not how many people get infected.

....believe China who lies because they are communist.

We are swimming upstream.

Lack of testing capacity early on cost us.

What should have been an orchestrated 2 week shutdown in late February has turned into a shit show.

Governors bailing out Trump.

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Must have been in the WaPo and he liked it and is using the hell out of it.

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Colorado has officially given up on trying to test everyone suspected...only those requiring hospitalization are getting tested due to lack of supplies.

Loss of this talking point that is. And the test was accomplished incredibly quickly by Abbott labs after meeting with Trump and other companies. Trump removed the restricitions, and the private sector did the rest.
No way that a government could have achieved this.

The test is als a rapid test with instant answer.

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Brix also said - “When people start talking about 20 percent of a population being infected, it’s very scary," she said during Thursday's White House briefing. "But we don’t have data that matches that based on the [actual] experience.”

But the Dems will start to listen now, CNN posted that Obama said to practice social distancing. All is well now.

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The actual numbers of infected is far greater than the "official" numbers.

sort of medicine and are not telling us?

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But Fox News is reporting the same thing.

Link: https://www.foxnews.com/health/us-overtakes-china-italy-in-total-confirmed-coronavirus-cases-researchers-say

Agressive testing and quarantines...South Korea did the same thing. We still don't have enough tests 3 weeks after the initial outbreak.

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Health officials in CO have been warning for days that there are likely thousands more infected who have not yet been tested. If either country is under-reporting...it's us.