This feels like the mid-to-late game in Plague Inc.

  • KiaKaha [he/him]
    hexagon
    ·
    4 years ago

    Depends. It gets lower if you account for all the asymptomatic cases.

    • DasKarlBarx [he/him,comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      Sure but this is odd known cases so like the person above said since these are known cases it's not going to be 0.4% of those.

      • KiaKaha [he/him]
        hexagon
        ·
        4 years ago

        Depends how the cases were detected—but yeah the 0.4% was being optimistic.

        • DasKarlBarx [he/him,comrade/them]
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          4 years ago

          I'm confused as to what you mean? Cases are recorded through positive tests sent to the CDC. (maybe after going to the white house first? I can't remember if they stopped doing that or not).

          Testing requirements vary from state to state, but that's how cases are detected and how they derive the numbers.

          • KiaKaha [he/him]
            hexagon
            ·
            4 years ago

            I mean, if tests are done by random sampling, contact tracing, or by mass testing a la Chinese cities, then you get a whole lot of asymptomatics registering as cases. If you only test when people present at hospital, you get only the worst cases.

            • DasKarlBarx [he/him,comrade/them]
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              4 years ago

              Yes, but the west outside of a handful of studies only tests when people show symptoms and don't do mass testing on any scale.