Hong Kong had every reason to have an exponential epidemic (lots of travel from Wuhan/China) and yet has dramatically slowed the spread. Two deaths total. Probably: with memory of SARS, they responded quickly with closures, universal mask wearing, social distancing and hygiene. https://twitter.com/lwcalex/status/1235091542219448321 …
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Evergreen Health in Washington announced they were no longer testing because the CDC says it's endemic in Washington, but today they took the announcement off their website. We don't know who is testing and who isn't.
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Hard for me to keep this all in perspective! Be careful put there! https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/index.html …
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and it would appear this uncertainty reflects a willful ignorance of the importance of testing at the highest levels of government. In short, they can keep reported infection numbers low if they deliberately don't test everyone.
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There is very little testing being done, here in WA. Media obsesses about deaths, though. Presuming that the mortality rate is ~5% can we guess at the number of people who had the virus, 2weeks ago, from the number of deaths this week?
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