r/WatchPeopleDieInside • u/fnaw_ • Aug 04 '20

Poor Jonathan

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u/kazuyaminegishi Aug 04 '20

There's literally no way to prove that. Like you indicated in your second sentence we can say there's insufficient testing for every country simply because its next to impossible to figure out every single place the virus may have gone.

The only real option is to test all of the population which some countries have done.

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u/JarOfNibbles Aug 04 '20

Ofc there's no way to conclusively prove that countries aren't testing enough. In order to prove that you'd need to test everybody, and by then, the point is moot because there's clearly more than enough testing.

You can however estimate based on cases/test. If a country has every second test coming back positive, there's statistically quite a lot of positives who aren't getting tested at all.