President Trump brags again today about US Covid-19 testing, once again looking foolish.
The lead chart is from Our World Covid Testing.
The US started testing way late and still lags. South Korea shows the benefit of early testing with an aggressive containment strategy.
The US failed on both counts.
Mish
because infections increase exponentially, the most important point is to do extensive tests as early as possible (and isolate the infected). The absolute number of tests itself or per capita is actually less important than when you start the extensive tests. remind the exponential function y=ab^t. it’s most critical to reduce the multiplier b as early as possible.
Factoid for Mish: Dr. Birx said on national TV today that SK has done 11 per 100,000 whereas US has done 17 per 100,000. Maybe she is lying or wrong, or maybe your data is wrong or old.
Had to look this up and was surprised to find that she’s right. 17.9 tests/B in US vs 12.0 tests/B in SK. (For reference, Spain and Italy are 28.8 and 30.5, respectively, tho.)
Early testing and contact tracing must be key. SK has 210 cases/M and 5 deaths/M, compared to 3,129/M cases and 179 deaths/M in US. Deaths/M in Spain, Italy, Germany, and UK are far worse than US, at 510, 453, 362, and 319.
I knew it! The globalists are turning us into Lizard People!
Phase 1: Implant the nano virus in everyone. Some react poorly to it and die, most survive. When everyone has been swabbed, they will have the individual DNA marker of everyone.
Phase 2: The nano virus is activated via 5G and 6G signals. Everyone can be ID’d and located, kept or eliminated. Further control experiments commence.
Sure, blame it on Obama whose administration had to fight almost for every penny back then with stupid “cut everything” tea baggers.
The simple fact is they really don’t want to know.
Pandemic Science Out of Control
A toxic legacy of poor-quality research, media hype, lax regulatory oversight, and vicious partisanship has come home to roost in the search for effective treatments for COVID-19.
This could have been a great article if the authors had explored the flipflop on the facemasks, the “the flu is worse” stupidity from every western institution with a voice in mainstream media in Jan-Feb and into Mar etc… Instead, its a political hit piece.
The hydroxylchloroquine issue as explored by the article is biased as hell. No research is included from asian countries or even how Chinese doctors had noticed that lupus patients on hydroxylchloroquine were not getting covid and began the treatment regimen.
Costa Rica has a .5% fatality rate among those tested using the Chinese proscribed hydroxylchloroquine + anti-biotic + zinc regimen.
Hydroxylchloroquine is dirt cheap. And it has a safety record better than aspirin. Over the past 70 years millions and millions have taken it as a prophylactic including most all of my friends that travel a lot.
So far the US studies either do not mention or note the patients taking this regimen are late stage Covid. This is an anti-viral and it needs to be taken at onset of minor symptoms to be effective.
Very disappointed…
Not a Trump fan but a fan of following the data…
The key to the entire hush-hush and bash-bash of the hydroxylchloroquine + anti-biotic + zinc regimen … “Hydroxylchloroquine is dirt cheap”, not a new gold mine for big pharma …
Trump has been told Per Capita statistics are racist so he no longer talks about it.
Fair Point about percentages.
SK was prepared from the last SARS. The West wasn’t, in fact the previous admin let all the PPE stocks etc. decline despite studies recommending more stockpiles. Also States like NY elected not to spend on stockpiles either. (Of course that doesn’t matter, Trump is the only one responsible in many circles – I guess those who are closet totalitarianistsas yearning for a more Dictator-StrongMan system!)
Meanwhile, somebody needs to sit down and explain to Italy why buying junk tests from China looks great on paper in terms of percentage test amounts, but doesn’t give you very good data.
But more important than all the above, somebody needs to finally explain to our beleaguered Commander in Chief why he was fooled into buying into the shut-down and why he is even more foolish not to admit he got played and immediately do all he can to reverse this disastrous course before it’s too late.
He will burn the world with thermonuclear fire before he admits that.
And lest we forget, Truman was a Republican!
“The West wasn’t, in fact the previous admin let all the PPE stocks etc. decline despite studies recommending more stockpiles.”
If only there was time for the Trump administration to have done something about flagging stockpiles. One can’t expect such inherited problems be addressed in the first three years of an administration, can one?
BaranAsh needs to admit that Trump has made many many mistakes with Covid-19. However, it is a fair point to mention that H1N1 was in the first year of Obama’s presidency and he had 7 years – 7 years – to restock the nation’s PPE supply and didn’t. Moreover, it wasn’t just that his administration got multiple warnings to restock it, it seems like it would be common sense to resupply the nation’s stockpile of N95 masks if you had to use 75% in your first year on the Swine Flu.
Obama does deserve that criticism. I think it is partisan to sweep that under the rug. With that said, Trump deserves more criticism for a long laundry list.
I’ve read the Rethuglicans wouldn’t vote for the funds to restock.
Sounds like an excuse. If so, he had more than a year with Democratic control of both houses after depleting the stockpile by 75% and could have taken it to the public as it is common sense to replenish it.
With that said name calling aside – just about every major leader deserves to get voted out for this fiasco in my mind. That includes Trump.
Yes, vote him out. Just make sure you don’t vote in all those far worse who have been using this virus to bring down western economic and political order. They’re the ones to really pay attention to. Trump got voted in because the Beltway Boys have been selling their own people down the river for decades. If we want something better than Trump, better stop voting in bigoted idiots like Waters, Pelosi, Schiff, all those RINOs and many other star-studded corrupt idiots. Throw out the lobbyists whilst you’re at it. Chop the military down by 75% at least. Fire 90% of the DC Administrative State. Get rid of the Special Executive Service.
Since NONE of that can be done, maybe it’s time for all of us to stop fixating on the #1 Reality TV Star President in our Reality TV Republic and maybe expect more of ourselves during elections and make a better job of it.
Nah, let’s face it: it’s too much fun watching the next episode!
(And since less people have died this winter than are usually taken from us by flu, iatrogenic boo-boos in hospitals, car crashes and so forth, nobody is actually getting hurt but boy is it dramatic flirting with another Great Depression and World War. Nail-biting. And we all get to blame the Big Bad Orange Man Bad when things get too scary! Pass the popcorn!!)
U do know the stockpile was not empty? He also used some product against Ebola when he sent people to Africa to get ahead of it. Plus it was listed in the 400 page book obama left him as things needed to be done which I’m sure went into the trash
I guess you weren’t informed that the outgoing administration detailed everything that was needed that they hadn’t been able to fully get to. One being restocking the stockpile. Obama gave him over 400 pages of things to hel them and since none of it got done I’d say dipshit threw it all away.p
He also gave him a poisoned CIA and FBI and 2-3 years of treasonous investigations – in case you didn’t notice.
There is a difference between tests and between testing and ‘screening’. Maybe some one could sit down with Mish and explain it to him and what different countries are doing or are capable of doing. I don’t have time.
thank you for not wasting his time with your drivel
I am unsure what you are referring to when you say screening and testing. I actually test for CoV2 in a major lab (molecular). You can refer to some tests as screening like I used to do in Toxicology. We would run screening tests on an analyzer and then confirm by GC/MS. You can also screen with a test that has less specificity and if positive, move a more specific, yet more costly test. By screening, are you speaking of a symptom screen?
Somebody needs to sit him down, get the crayons out, and explain.