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to say 2,931 have been tested is to say zero have been tested
Based upon national statistics as well as international ones, the New York Times has a new comparison of death rates from CoVID-19, at https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/21/upshot/coronavirus-deaths-by-country.html.
Importantly, there is a graphic comparing the experiences of states. This information will be important in evaluating whether to relax social distancing and other pressures on the economy. Look at Washington, the first state to experience the outbreak–and to take measures including social distancing. Their death rate is now less than half that of other states with large outbreaks. This is really important information for governments and businesses.
Please help to get the word out, so that parallel information for Indiana becomes available soon. (The numbers, thankfully, are low enough in Indiana that reliable measurement of death rates may not yet be possible.)
(A problem with death rates is that they lag behind infections by weeks, or maybe a month. So we won’t know things are getting better for a long time–and need to maintain discipline until we do get reliable indications. But in the absence of testing, death rates are the most reliable measure we have, and they are available for comparison across jurisdictions. Let’s hope the testing ramps up, but let’s not overlook real data as life and death choices are being made.)