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[QUOTE="miamicuse, post: 3337478, member: 7237"]
Thanks for pointing that out.  Yes S Korea is lower, but I think their methodology is different.  Many Asian countries are doing contact tracing.  In other words, once you are tested positive, they ask where you have been and who you came across days earlier.  They also tested everyone early on, so the death over total tested positive ratio is lower *I BELIEVE* is due to the large denominator of those tested.  We don't have the same denominator here in the USA, we haven't tested enough to have an idea of that number.

Just to give you an idea, I know someone in Shanghai China, who was visited two weeks ago by a health official, and was ordered to be quarantined for 14 days.  Reason?  He was at a supermarket on a particular day during a particular time, someone else in that supermarket got sick.  They decided to chase down everyone at that supermarket during that 2 hour time period, employees and customers, they used the security cameras around the facility and did facial recognition and tracked everyone down.  He was escorted to a test then quarantined subsequently.

We are not testing enough IMHO to compare the same numbers.  I do understand the issue with testing, even if they have all the testing kits ready and available, it will not solve the fundamental problems.  They don't have enough PPE to protect the workers while doing the tests, and if you tested positive with no symptoms or mild symptoms there is nothing they can actually do for you...on the flip side if the testing reveals a sudden spike of a million people positive everyone would go into panic mode.  It's a rock and hard place choice.
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