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Numbers don't mean much. You don't have confirmed cases if you don't test. The same is true pretty much everywhere however, not only the US. You'd have thought we would systematically test people from at-risk region, but apparently not.
> Numbers don't mean much. Really? > You don't have confirmed cases if you don't test. There's appropriate testing. You and some media outlets are just fear mongering. There's less testing overall because there's less risk because the US government quarantined it so well. Other countries did and have not. Yes there have been some blunders, but that's human. I don't think blanket statements politicizing the situation…
Can you elaborate on that? Up to now everything shows that US government did not quarantine it very well, the chances for early testing and isolation of early cases were missed because of too restricted testing, and now we're getting severe patients who did not have any travel history, so they've been infected somewhere on US soil a week or two ago from sources who haven't been identified (possibly because they themselves have only mild symptoms and don't need hospitalization) and presumably have infected others. These "surprise patients" are evidence that community spread in USA has started some time ago already.
From what I see, countries like Singapore and South Korea are some examples of implementing somewhat effective quarantine measures, and USA has quarantined it much worse than other countries, it's just that it's been hidden due to lack of testing and the time delay of severe symptoms, so we're just starting to see the consequences of that.