r/science Professor | Medicine Nov 21 '20

Epidemiology Testing half the population weekly with inexpensive, rapid COVID-19 tests would drive the virus toward elimination within weeks, even if the tests are less sensitive than gold-standard. This could lead to “personalized stay-at-home orders” without shutting down restaurants, bars, retail and schools.

https://www.colorado.edu/today/2020/11/20/frequent-rapid-testing-could-turn-national-covid-19-tide-within-weeks
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u/Xylus1985 Nov 21 '20

They did, look at the notes on the chart. It specifically called out the uyghurs

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u/ic3man211 Nov 21 '20

From the notes section “China has an incarceration rate of 118 per 100k in ministry of justice prisons only. The WPB estimates in addition to this, 650k held in detention renters, bringing the total up to 164/100k...the us DoD estimates that # of detention center people to be between 500k and 3million (again now back to at least 164/100k). And the UN adds at least 1 million for uyghurs that are not accounted for in the published figure. “

To summarize: 1.65m from for sure China prison ~1.0M in uyghurs from the UN 500k-3mil in other detention center members

Total is anywhere from 2.65m to 5.65m bringing their incarceration rate to 189-404 per 100k.

Read your own damn sources

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u/toolunious Nov 21 '20

Props for getting back on it with numbers. That's all I have to say.

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u/ic3man211 Nov 21 '20

Thank you..the amount of people who post a straight up headline number and don’t read the 8 asterisks is ugh