This is a great site in looking at where every country is on this ,unwanted, table. It is not too long ago that Ireland and Denmark were neck and neck. Ireland are now 19th but will rise one or two places when todays figures are released. Denmark are now 31st. This is always assuming that the figures are accurate and genuine.
Belgium have counted every death outside hospitals and also every probable covid death (ones not yet tested showing all sythoms and cases tested but no results back) .They are looking at remodeling to be more like the rest. Personally I'd prefer to go their route .The UK are not counting deaths outside hospitals,hard to compare anyone to them.
You would have to ask why is the testing methods , test results and information that is coming out not the same for every country. What is there to be gained otherwise.
Maybe Greenland is a country we could learn from https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/greenland/
Denmark inside the Artic circle? You do realise that Greenland is the part of Denmark that's within the Artic circle??... Have a look at a map.while seven countries lie partially or wholly within the Arctic circle i.e. Norway, Finland, Sweden, Russia, the United States, Denmark and Canada, you should note that Greenland is not one of them.
"Learn from" is a different concept to "becoming" them and while seven countries lie partially or wholly within the Arctic circle i.e. Norway, Finland, Sweden, Russia, the United States, Denmark and Canada, you should note that Greenland is not one of them.
I take it then you no opportunities for our health services to learn from others, even those with a 100% recovery record, during a pandemic where the state of the art is to "make it up as we go along", to paraphrase the experts?
Apologies, could never tell Greenland and Iceland apart.Greenland is nearly entirely within the arctic circle.
Getting back on topic - it could simply be linked into the testing strategies. The initial plan here was that anyone showing cold/flu-like symptoms should go for testing. Then that was tightened to only if you had significant fever. How does the rate of positive tests here compare to the UK?
Given the change to the testing strategy, one thing you can be sure of is that there is significant under-reporting of the number of infected people.
Yes. The vast majority I hear about in Dublin as having had it haven’t been tested.We are currently using tests to confirm that people who seem to have it actually have it.
In time, particularly as antibody tests become more readily available, we will move to testing populations to see what the rate of infection is. At the moment our testing tells us nothing from an epidemiological perspective.
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