I took a while to see what this graphic was about but the information in it is really telling.
as a Brazilian I would say that in comparison to us, you guys do test more and that's way you have waaaaay more cases than we appear to do. if we tested properly maybe we would have similar numbers. but compared to Europe you definitely are not testing enough and surely have too many cases.
Just from a 'combating the idea' perspective, this isn't that helpful. For example if the US were largely testing symptomatic individuals you'd expect a higher proportion of cases per test, similarly if the European countries were doing arbitrary testing in the community and not testing in hospital then you'd expect a lower proportion per test. Obviously that isn't true in either case, but different testing approaches will skew this by quite a lot
![image showing My attempt to graphically combat the idea that U.S. has more cases because we test more. [OC]](c7ba61fd-d9dd-51f6-b1db-2789a650ce49.jpg)
pejofar on August 2nd, 2020 at 17:34 UTC »
I took a while to see what this graphic was about but the information in it is really telling.
as a Brazilian I would say that in comparison to us, you guys do test more and that's way you have waaaaay more cases than we appear to do. if we tested properly maybe we would have similar numbers. but compared to Europe you definitely are not testing enough and surely have too many cases.
-ah on August 2nd, 2020 at 18:30 UTC »
Just from a 'combating the idea' perspective, this isn't that helpful. For example if the US were largely testing symptomatic individuals you'd expect a higher proportion of cases per test, similarly if the European countries were doing arbitrary testing in the community and not testing in hospital then you'd expect a lower proportion per test. Obviously that isn't true in either case, but different testing approaches will skew this by quite a lot
Alpha-Hylian on August 2nd, 2020 at 19:14 UTC »
I think the data is fine, but I wouldn’t call an incredibly simple bar graph “beautiful”