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cmrdgkr t1_ixyejev wrote

Reply to comment by LimaBeansAreGood in S.Korea's new COVID-19 cases in 50,000 range amid winter resurgence worries by 4inalfantasy

I never said you weren't getting a hospitalization spike. But if 100,000 people got covid today and in the US 1000 went to the hospital, then the US might only think they've got 1000 new cases because that's all they track. In Korea they still track positive tests regardless of whether or not you went to the hospital. That's why certain countries are still showing large numbers like this because they're tracking all cases, not just the ones that wind up in hospital.

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Flymia t1_iy1xlvm wrote

I went to a PCR test ran by Miami-Dade County in September. Was positive, got a call from the Florida Dept. of Health the next day.

The numbers are a lot higher, but with vaccinations, and prior infections, serious illness is not showing as much, and tons of people just never test, or just test at home. People are more worried about the FLU and RSV right now.

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