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In reply to the discussion: Stephen Fry says Sweden's streets are 70% less busy and it's not dodging economic fallout [View all]PoindexterOglethorpe
(28,390 posts)is that even though right now this country has the largest total number of cases, in no small part because we are the third most populous country in the world, we do not have the largest number of cases per million population. Spain, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, and Ireland all have more cases per million.
I will also add that I cannot believe that India has as few cases as they seem to be reporting. And there seems to be reason to think that China has vastly under-reported its cases.
For all the flaws in the reporting of cases in this country, we are probably doing a better job than a lot of other countries, including at least some first world countries. However, we all need to be aware that we are still in the early stages of this pandemic, and even if it had been handled better, we'd still have a lot of uncertainty everywhere as to the numbers of those infected, those died, and so on. We are still learning a lot of basic things about this virus.