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Why are active covid cases in the US so high?
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December 12th, 2020
Per worldometer, (see https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/)
the total number of active cases in the US is just under 6.6 million. The total number of cases in the US is just over 16 million. Which means that over 40% of all COVID cases since the beginning are still “active”. Obviously, this cannot be true; so what gives?
By contrast, India has had a total case count of over 9.8 million. However, the number of active cases is under 360,000. The percentage of active cases as a percentage of total cases is 3%!
It is obviously a reporting problem; but what is the explanation?
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