Implode-o-Meter News - A New Statistic Reveals Why America's COVID-19 Numbers Are Flat

The U.S. has now tested 3.2 million people, which is also about 1 percent of its population, but it has found more than 630,000 cases. So while the U.S. has a 20 percent positivity rate, South Korea's is only about 2 percent--a full order of magnitude smaller.
South Korea is not alone in bringing its positivity rate down: America's figure dwarfs that of almost every other developed country. Canada, Germany and Denmark have positivity rates from 6 to 8 percent. Australia and New Zealand have 2 percent positivity rates. Even Italy--which faced one of the world's most ravaging outbreaks--has a 15 percent rate. It has found nearly 160,000 cases and conducted more than a million tests. Virtually the only wealthy country with a larger positivity rate than the U.S. is the United Kingdom, where more than 30 percent of people tested for the virus have been positive.

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A New Statistic Reveals Why America's COVID-19 Numbers Are Flat