[PLUG-TALK] Covid-19 mortality rates

[John Jason Jordan]

On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 18:42:11 -0400
tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com dijo:

>Right now, the testing here is still limited by test availability
>supply - so expect to see new cases acceleration as people can get
>tested without restrictions. With this spread visibility restrictions
>the number of new cases doubles almost every 1-2 days => here will be
>about to 20k new cases by the end of the weekend - that translates to
>400 future deaths just for this week.

For the past week or two I've been asking myself where the
manufacturers of medical testing equipment have been. If I owned such a
company the moment COVID-19 made the news I'd have gone to three shifts
a day. The South Koreans can test 10,000 people in a day, but not us.