>>>>Again, this is very misleading. This is caused because of the shortage of testing kits since the beginning of the outbreak and therefore, unlike in other countries, far less tests are being done. In most causes, people who got ill, never got a test unless they had to be admitted into the hospital. So we are not looking at comparable statistical populations.
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>>??!! according to figures I see, South Korea had been portrayed as the leading COVID tester until the US surpassed them in both volume and per capita testing weeks back now. The US is also performing the IgM/IgG antibody test that reports past as well as current infection meaning that you get to count infections from day 1 unlike the standard PCR that only detects active infection.
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>The above is about the Netherlands, not the US. Because of the shortage of tests, and tests were mostly applied to people who were already very ill, the mortality rate per postive test is automatically higher than countries who do a lot of testing. We can't even compare to surrounding countries as datasets are not uniform and differences in morrtality counts and testing capacity.

I agree. I just don't know what the real numbers are. Let us start with the terms "cases" and "% positive tests". Only a week or so ago did Florida start to separate out the positive test in NEW cases from the TOTAL positive . Before they separated the two numbers one person could test positive, be sent home for a couple of weeks, then get another test still positive, a week later another positive test and finally negative test. The test results data would be 75% positive 25% negative.
One the other side, I wrote about a month ago that I had 4 friends that tested positive. The two in Florida, a man and his son, were tested because they had several symptoms. The wife and 2 teen aged daughters who had the same symptoms but much milder 4-5 days earlier were denied the test because of limited testing availability (then for Florida about 50k/week - last week 260K ). So for the family - 2 cases recorded. My guess is the true number is 5.