• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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    2 years ago

    And if EU was requiring tests for people travelling from US/UK then that would be applying rules consistently. But that’s clearly not the case right now. Also, we have no idea what percentage of people on any given flight in EU have covid since as far as I’m aware there’s not testing happening. Sating that 50% of people on a flight from China tested positive without knowing what percentage of people on a typical flight in Europe is infected is not very informative. Furthermore, there really aren’t any reliable stats from US either last I checked. US stopped publishing daily case statistics a while back. However, both hospitalizations and ICU admissions are rising sharply.

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      2 years ago

      Additionally, the link in the op literally explains that XBB15 could be the worst variant to date. But we don’t know. Because the US and the UK stopped caring about accurate data months or even years ago.

      • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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        2 years ago

        China has more than 3x the population of US, and US is doing very little testing right now. Total cases are vastly underestimated since most people aren’t actually getting tested right now. And I’ll repeat this once again, so far the most dangerous variants we know about come from US and UK.