S Korea is making 100,000 test ... ***A DAY***... Keep that in mind while our economy falls apart

[uponit7771]

CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE, GET THEM ON PAR PER CAPITA LOCALIZED TESTING RIGHT NOW !!!

If the KGOP rejects par capita testing measures then the deaths are on them.

...............................................How South Korea Flattened the Curve...................................................

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/world/asia/coronavirus-south-korea-flatten-curve.html

Just one week after the country’s first case was diagnosed in late January, government officials met with representatives from several medical companies. They urged the companies to begin immediately developing coronavirus test kits for mass production, promising emergency approval.

Within two weeks, though South Korea’s confirmed cases remained in the double digits, thousands of test kits were shipping daily. The country now produces 100,000 kits per day, and officials say they are in talks with 17 foreign governments about exporting them.

[pat_k]

1. Site for tracking reported tests, positives, hospitalizations, deaths

Project spearheaded by the Atlantic.

https://covidtracking.com/data/

Best numbers I've found with grading of data quality and historical figures. They also provide links to best sources for state-specific data

They are missing per capita numbers, but those are easy enough to calculate with state population data.

We are dismal on testing, but knowing the extent to which a state is testing helps make sense of the numbers

[uponit7771]

2. Thx !!!

[dreamland]

3. TPP

While the trade pact could've helped establish better relationships with these countries, dear leader shithead feels we didn't need trade for trinkets.

[uponit7771]

4. +1

[soryang]

5. good article

the social trust issue is a red herring. Bogus criticisms of complacency on the part of the Moon Jae-in democratic administration's response to the epidemic were politically motivated in South Korea and the US press.

South Korea is a politically polarized socially volatile society. Right up through the beginning of the outbreak religious groups which support the far right had been demonstrating in Seoul for months on weekends in the tens, if not hundreds of thousands. Their leadership threatened to continue demonstrating during the public health emergency. Their leader had to be jailed. The mayor of Seoul, and other jurisdictions made it clear that they weren't going to put up with lack of cooperation or disorderly conduct from any group or individual regardless of their affiliation.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

6. With a competent president, we could be on the same track as S. Korea.

The GOP and their Grotesque Orange Pustule have condemned tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands to die.

Now trump is blackmailing and extorting states just as he did Ukraine, just as Adam Schiff warned during impeachment, while Moscow Mitch tries to deflect blame from the cowardly Republicans in the Senate.