Thread by @EricTopol

The US will reach 100,000 #COVID19 cases & > 900 deaths by Friday, March 27, w/ doubling rates of 2.4 & 3.5 d, respectively. -> #1 in the world.
Recall that South Korea & US had their 1st patient diagnosed on Jan 21/22 (within 24 hrs). The Δ for SK vs US was testing + tracing

For more on the difference see lessons from SK (US did none of these, 1-3) nytimes.com/2020/03/23/wor… by @Max_Fisher and @choesanghun
and cdc.go.kr/board/board.es…

To quantify, in the month of February, well after #COVID19 had arrived in their countries, the total number of tests done:
South Korea >70,000
United States 352

For the assertion today by @POTUS & Dr. Bixt that the US has done more #COVID19 testing in the last 8 days than South Korea cumulatively, that doesn't mean anything.
Nearly 0 tests were done for 2 months when they were desperately needed.

Why have we already now exceeded US 1000 deaths 2 days before projected?
@BmcNoldy, ironically a tropical cyclone scientist, had noted yesterday "it's accelerating above the best-fit exponential curve"
Indeed it has.

https://twitter.com/BMcNoldy/status/1242397305115824128

For #dataviz, here's the March 25 data point added, 1032 deaths