COVID-19 news of the morning
2020-03-13 16:40:22.733655+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
I'm just gonna gulp and leave this right here: The Lancet: Real estimates of mortality following COVID-19 infection.
doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30195-X
In light of the confirmation that, yes, the Trump administration was responsible for the reorganization that destroyed the CDC's pandemic response efforts, it's worth looking at how other countries are doing.
One of the things that this pandemic is laying clear is just how bad the US healthcare system is. As a percent of GDP we pay twice what developed nations pay for healthcare, and get pretty lousy outcomes. Someone yesterday was ragging on China's healthcare system, and I went and looked, and despite their *much* higher smoking rate, and presumably higher poverty rates, they've only got a life expectancy 2 years shorter than US residents.
Every developed nation, of course, has a much longer life expectancy.
So right now it appears that the fastest cheapest way for a USAnian to get a COVID-19 test is to fly to Singapore.
Covid-19: Swab test for travellers entering Singapore, as MOH warns of new waves of infection
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