1. Data that I and @abtran pulled together suggest that the U.S. is still well behind in coronavirus testing. Yes, we ramped up, but we have a massive population and have only tested about 0.2 percent of it.
2. Yet several countries, like Germany and South Korea, have tested half a percent or more of their populations. And Norway has tested 1.5 percent of its country already! fhi.no/en/id/infectio…
3. Germany now is at the level of 300-500 k tests per week, @LovedayM reports. They've already tested more people than South Korea.
4. Germany and Norway are also currently holding the disease death rate at just around half a percent of reported cases, vastly lower than places like Italy and Spain. Not clear if that can continue, but it may have something to do with these high testing levels.
5. So, yes, the U.S. is starting to really test a lot of people. But, no, it is not leading the world, once you take population size into account -- and there is a very long way to go. /end
