There's something deeply unexplained about the U.S. coronavirus death rates compared to other countries. It can't be explained by hospital payment incentives or even leadership mistakes. For some reason, we are all blind to the biggest variable, whatever it is.
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My understanding is that most PCR tests in the US are run to cycle 40, and in Europe it's about 3-4 cycles less (thus 8-16x less sensitive). We're detecting more people infected people, including people who were infected weeks earlier. Doesn't explain excess deaths though.
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By that same token, would US be detecting infected people sooner as well?
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Is that a case count problem? Only the first positive counts and the number of negative tests after deflates positivity rates.
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Per Capita is a useless number. Tests for found cases is the important KPI
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Their reporting is very different. The secondary is reported as a cause of death. In the US a pt on their death bed just tested positive will be counted as COVID
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