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This makes several useful points about cohort. Are we comparing apples with apples? Are the cohort selection criteria the same from state to state and country to country.

The answer is clearly NO regarding country to country.

Something is going badly wrong in USA
In the U.K. the Dept of Health are correctly imposing a nationally coherent strategy with common surveillance software.

As is evident from the embedded thread, in the USA they cannot say with any certainty how many people have been tested in each state and county.
So who knows what meaning to attach to positive tests?

Firstly. Why would the CDC or states or counties seek to conceal the number of tests being carried out?

I can’t think of a good scientific reason.

Political ones maybe..but not good for citizens.
Are they even applying the same protocol and the same dataset right across the country?

What common fields are recorded that are comparable?

With a 5.6% mortality rate (Hubei, the epicentre, is 4.2%) they SHOULD be worried.
Do they test those who were admitted with one respiratory infection suspected and who subsequently died or not?

If not they may well be unaware of or deliberately turning a blind eye to true mortality rates.

I doubt many believe the data coming from Iran.
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“The president’s statements to the press were terrifying. That press availability was a repudiation of good science & good crisis management from inside one of the world’s most respected scientific institutions.”
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For the left, that means asserting that inequality is always rising. This is not only wrong, but dangerous in spreading the idea it is normal, when it’s anything but.

For the right...
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For the right, it’s trumpeting record employment and the fact that inequality hasn’t risen recently. This doesn’t recognise that we’ve never had it so bad when it comes to living standards growth and that now it’s the poorest households faring worst.

Starting with the 1980s.
In the 2000s both the rich and the poor fared better, but the middle was squeezed.

Then came the financial crisis.
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“Since 2016, nearly 5,500 patients have died in England alone as a direct result of having waited too long to be admitted to hospital. ...That’s nearly twice the number of people killed in terror attacks in the UK since 1970. We should be outraged.”

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(You are too sacred) “of us asking you tough questions – and start listening to our medical experts instead. We don’t need more privatisation from American companies. We don’t need more expensive consultants and middle management getting involved.”
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If he could be bothered to really listen he would already know.

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This is an interesting thread and makes several good points.

My personal (as an non practising Jew) view is this:
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makes several good points in here. Definitely worth the read, and not for necessarily the reasons you think. Thread attached.
2. She points out that people are getting tired of Trumpov, tired of the shit show, tired of the new outrage every few days. I know I am.
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