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@guizzy That is partly because we have not oversaturated any hospitals yet. Italy has.
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But as for whether the US or Europe is the current "epicenter" of the pandemic, the whole argument is silly. Every country goes into exponential growth until they enforce a nationwide lockdown. Some parts of the US are just now starting their lockdowns, as are some countries in Europe.
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I don't think the article controls very well for anything. In particular, in both China and Italy, the overwhelming majority of reported infections have happened in a single region of the country, so "19 days past the 100th case" of #2019-nCoV means something quite different when most of the cases are in a single subregion of a country than when they are fairly well spread out. It is much easier for a given number of cases to overwhelm the medical capacity of a single region than it is to overwhelm the entire country. (And overwhelming an area's medical capacity, according to "flatten the curve", makes all the difference.)
If anything, Durden makes a case he did not argue: that the pattern of (known) #COVID-19 infections in the #USA is different enough that the country's experience should not be compared to either #China or #Italy.
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I guess Ryan McMaken via the Mises Institute made that case, not Tyler Durden.
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