Here's a comparison of the path of the Trump Virus cases in US versus other countries. It's looking more like Italy than So Korea.
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The US number is many times that, of course, and looks low only because we're not testing. It's a pretty good bet that there are several times that number right in New York City.
Compare to South Korea, which is reporting slightly more cases than we are (which will change dramatically in the next few days). Both countries, US and SK saw their first cases within a day apart.
SK had a test developed and in the field within a week, began cluster testing hot spots, even general population, and isolating identified people/areas immediately.
Compare the US military in SK, under local command, to the US military here. The difference is rather dramatic.
The only reason why Washington State didn't do a lot of testing after the test developed in a flu study there identified the first person in the US is because the Feds told the Washington lab to stop testing, under threat.
It didn't have to get this bad, with distancing and quarantining nationwide all at once, but without the testing, this is the only alternative - to tell everyone, as the Surgeon General did this morning - to act as if they're infected.
I have no doubt that the decisions to not test were economic at the source - fear of creating panic and hurting the market. That decision, for several weeks, is why we're right where we are now.
