These are incredibly, astonishingly low numbers, even if you assume a lot of undercounting.https://twitter.com/WHOAFRO/status/1263033806132568065 …
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This username is slowly turning into a Coronavirus truther account.
Doesn't being a truther require promoting an alternative theory?
Much younger populations?
It's a favorite theory, but then you have to account for outbreaks in paces like Ecuador and Brazil
I think your responses here are exactly the case for not paying much attention. There are a lot of obvious theories, all with wildly divergent implications and none with anything approaching proof. What's a journalist supposed to do, list out the 5000 possibilities?
The opposite—not offer just-so stories based on their favorite of the 5,000 explanations.
Count me in the "Coronavirus is extremely transmissable and deadly...sometimes. And we have no clue what the sometimes depends on" camp as well
this seems to make sense: it is randomhttps://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/why-do-some-covid-19-patients-infect-many-others-whereas-most-don-t-spread-virus-all …
I suspect the answer is just pure blind chance. A virus with low dispersion factor will have a bunch of lumpiness as a bunch of places manage to avoid rolling snake eyes for a while.https://twitter.com/kakape/status/1262863846387134470 …
It is possible they’ve had a bump in deaths but counting is inefficient. Would be ‘easy’ to miss 5-10k deaths nationwide for example.
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