|| Control Positivity by increasing testing ||
The largest daily spike in the world, the largest daily spike ever, uncounted cases might be 6 or 10 or 20 or 200 (!) times official counts, an economy in serious reverse gear its hard to keep abreast of all the news about all that this pandemic is doing to India. I keep my nose to the data as much as I can. But its hard. So many questions, worries, puzzles. One of those is about testing for the virus. Through these pandemic months, weve heard plenty about testing. Specifically, that India needs to be testing more. But today, India has tested over 43 million people close to the population of Spain and we are testing over a million people a day.
Those are large numbers. In fact, going by the number of tests conducted, we are third in the world only China (90 million, though there are questions about this number) and the US (83 million) have tested more people for the covid infection. The US is now testing about 670,000 people daily, down from a peak of about 900,000 a month ago. Thats substantially less than Indias count of a million, and no other country comes anywhere close to our daily testing tally.
Yet when we look at the numbers like this, we have to also factor in Indias population. Were testing more than most other countries, but we also have more people than most other countries. There are nearly 1.4 billion Indians, four times the number of Americans and second, of course, only to the Chinese. So while we have indeed tested a large number of Indians, that 43 million count doesnt seem quite as large any more when we compare it to our population. Of every million Indians, we have tested over 31,000, or 3.1%. That is ,we have tested one of every 30 Indians.
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|| Control Positivity by increasing testing || The largest daily spike in the world, the largest daily spike ever, uncounted cases might be 6 or 10 or 20 or 200 (!) times official counts, an economy in serious reverse gear its hard to keep abreast of all the news about all that this pandemic is doing to India. I keep my nose to the data as much as I can. But its hard. So many questions, worries, puzzles. One of those is about testing for the virus. Through these pandemic months, weve heard plenty about testing. Specifically, that India needs to be testing more. But today, India has tested over 43 million people close to the population of Spain and we are testing over a million people a day. Those are large numbers. In fact, going by the number of tests conducted, we are third in the world only China (90 million, though there are questions about this number) and the US (83 million) have tested more people for the covid infection. The US is now testing about 670,000 people daily, down from a peak of about 900,000 a month ago. Thats substantially less than Indias count of a million, and no other country comes anywhere close to our daily testing tally. Yet when we look at the numbers like this, we have to also factor in Indias population. Were testing more than most other countries, but we also have more people than most other countries. There are nearly 1.4 billion Indians, four times the number of Americans and second, of course, only to the Chinese. So while we have indeed tested a large number of Indians, that 43 million count doesnt seem quite as large any more when we compare it to our population. Of every million Indians, we have tested over 31,000, or 3.1%. That is ,we have tested one of every 30 Indians. https://www.livemint.com/opinion/columns/covid-positivity-a-heavy-load-does-it-explode-11599184568081.html