Jennifer Huang Bouey Profile picture
Tang Chair for China Policy Studies at @RANDCorporation. Epidemiologist. Professor of Global Health at Georgetown University. My opinions are my own.
Mar 18, 2020 5 tweets 2 min read
A short thread on where things appear to stand in the United States and why rapid #COVID19 testing is so important ... /1 According to this dashboard by @JHUSystems, there have been 114 U.S. deaths. If we take the case-fatality rate of 0.9 from South Korea's screening efforts, then this would seem to suggest that there are 12K to 13K U.S. cases. (114 divided by 0.9) But... gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashbo… /2