I believe recovery data is actually hospital discharges or reports from by the health department. Total and new case data come from positive tests. Since many if not most people that test positive recovery at home, their may be many recoveries not recorded. Although this seems reasonable, I have not seen anything that explains how this data is collected.China did not spend two months trying to decide on their response. China has "despotic" power at it's finger tips and does not have to contend with the checks and balances of a democratic system and a media that is quick to reveal any problems. Thus they sealed off transportation in and out of of the affected areas. They didn't ask the people to stay in doors. They put armed troops on the streets, setup checkpoints, that no one passed without permission. Unlike the US, people that tested positive for the virus were not sent home with a request to self-quarantine. In China they did not request, they ordered a quarantine and your dwelling was posted. Violation of quarantine was considered a crime against the people and treated as such.New York and New Jersey are still 50+% of the active cases.
How come China shows everyone recovered and we show practically nobody recovered.
The Chinese approach is hardly applicable to the US or for most of the world. South Korea's solution is far more applicable.
While I get that...
What I am asking is why we are not seeing more people recovered.
Armed guards don't speed up recovery.
What you might be saying is that we are only seeing the back of the curve (the few folks who were originally diagnosed) and since we've really only come up recently (number of cases).....well after a certain time lag...the recovered curve should start to follow ?
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