Yes, please. I love all the Kerala stories but there are lots of regions with terrible governance and similar numbers. While it appears that good governance can help contain outbreaks, terrible governance doesn't seem to dictate there is one. Too many just-so stories coming out.https://twitter.com/jonst0kes/status/1261691557343870977 …
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I think we are getting a clearer picture on how places facing outbreaks can get a handle on things, but still less clear on the distribution of places that are (so far and thankfully) spared.
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Fair, but Kerala is very far from a noble savage, and the international development people who plug it have long thought highly of it.
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I'm obviously talking about the genre of stories about a variety of places, not about any of the places. Kerala has always been rightly lauded for its public health focus (and also literacy).
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Where would you class Vietnam?
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Poor data gathering can explain a lot. Consider Texas which had 1437 pneumonia deaths in the whole year of 2016. CDC data now reports that Texas had 4295 pneumonia deaths (of which 319 were confirmed COVID-19 cases) and 745 total COVID deaths.https://twitter.com/ALT_uscis/status/1248417528906309632 …
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The CDC data is about a month behind, http://worldometers.info says that Texas had 1330 COVID deaths so far. Links to sources are in the quoted tweet above.
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But Kerala wasn’t lucky! It had some of the first cases in the country. But they tracked and traced like mad. And the health minister isn’t declaring victory. Far from it.
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You’re not reading what I’m saying
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You’re not understanding the phrase. It’s not about the places.
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