godsgifttoearth
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Do they ever report on how many people got tested per day?
50,000 is alot if only 60,000 got tested but tiny if millions were tested.
I know 5 people who were tested positive. None are ill. Some lost taste for a day or so. That's it.
this is a function of viral load, just as with any other illness. it doesn't mean much. a healthy person subjected to a high viral load can get far more ill than a more at risk individual with a low viral load.
how many tested per day isn't much useful, we are testing more now than we were at the start, which if i could be arsed to look at the numbers, could well be why we have so many more cases during this "peak".
the infection rate calculation is also a bit hit and miss and will usually get worse and worse with more testing as it depends heavily on the known number of infections as a ratio to at risk. as we don't know how many people are actually infected, they can use varying models to guess at the actual total number of infections in a given snapshot and then give a K based on those models, which is why we have quite a few different K values floating around.
either way the world is making it up as they go along and no one really knows how to best manage this outside of a full on lockdown and population testing until there are zero cases, which is impossible to do.