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Whitmer is addressing Michigan as I type and said the often touted line of "the US has 5% of the World's Population and 20% of World's Covid Cases."
She uses this as a dig at Trump's leadership (while still refusing to take questions on her anti-science position of putting Covid patients into retirement homes for half a year).
Is this really true?
Can we trust the ability of 3rd world countries to accurately count their numbers?
Do we believe China is honest with their case count?
Do we believe Russia is honest with their case count?
Are multiple dictatorships honest with their numbers?
Given that there is overwhelming evidence that the solid majority of the world's population lives in countries that either can't properly count their cases or have dictators that brazenly undercount their numbers to keep control - is it really fair to keep claiming that the US has 5% of the world's population and 20% of the world's Covid cases?
I don't believe any country is honest with their covid numbers including the US because the virus has been turned into a political weapon by the Dems.
The media has been hammering the death toll as their top story for months now but when Biden takes over is there any doubt that they will turn to highlighting the numbers of people that have survived the virus?
The US also does more testing which will gives us more results both positive and negative with many mistakes in between.
Right. The part people leave out is 20% of the world's CONFIRMED cases. Huge difference. But you're overestimating any importance to the stat - it just means who tested what and when.
France has 1% of the world's population and 4% of the cases - does that make you feel better? Or should France feel worse?
Of the world's 7.5 billion people or so - 4 billion of them live where the Covid Counting ain't exactly gonna be thorough. So the estimate of the USA's proportion of cases is fragile at best. But in the end - until a vaccine - it seriously does not matter. It's just a waiting game, until every person that's gonna get it, gets it. At that point, the cases will be proportional to the population of each nation, and if there's any natural immunity somewhere, it will be apparent.
Well the US has about 20% of the world's tests. Between the US, China and India, that's about half the 910 million tests that have been done. US had done 168 million tests.
If you go to the emergency room with a gunshot wound and you die but you also tested positive for covid-19 it goes down as a covid-19 death...co-morbidity. I'm curious if other countries do that as well
If you go to the emergency room with a gunshot wound and you die but you also tested positive for covid-19 it goes down as a covid-19 death...co-morbidity. I'm curious if other countries do that as well
We have 5% of the world's population, and how much of it's medical reporting capacity? Do you think the numbers coming out of Mexico, Brazil, etc. are anywhere near accurate. And our reporting is likely more honest than some of other countries (thinking about China.)
The GSW example is probably extreme, but it is certainly true of other issues such as Cancer, Alzheimers etc.
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