I guess my heuristic here would be looking to see if there are similar situations to the American situation in the world, and what they’re doing differently. Europe has quite a few similarities (EMA to FDA), (440 million to 330 million), and so I’d look to Europe for comparisons.
Anecdotally, buying a bundle of rapid tests in Europe was cheap and easy. They were available in every drugstore, and the ease/price of access was a huge advantage, which may be hard to overstate, especially if you’re coming from a position of “high” access to the American rapid tests.
(No easy ability to research these numbers at this time, apologies.) Quoting half-remembered articles without sources, Europe hasn’t had higher numbers of super-spreader events. Europe hasn’t had significantly higher case numbers over the whole pandemic. Hard to think of what other statistics would show “extra information outweighing misplaced confidence”, but I feel that Europe has outperformed the US or been even with the US in the majority of those cases.
I guess my heuristic here would be looking to see if there are similar situations to the American situation in the world, and what they’re doing differently. Europe has quite a few similarities (EMA to FDA), (440 million to 330 million), and so I’d look to Europe for comparisons.
Anecdotally, buying a bundle of rapid tests in Europe was cheap and easy. They were available in every drugstore, and the ease/price of access was a huge advantage, which may be hard to overstate, especially if you’re coming from a position of “high” access to the American rapid tests.
(No easy ability to research these numbers at this time, apologies.)
Quoting half-remembered articles without sources, Europe hasn’t had higher numbers of super-spreader events. Europe hasn’t had significantly higher case numbers over the whole pandemic. Hard to think of what other statistics would show “extra information outweighing misplaced confidence”, but I feel that Europe has outperformed the US or been even with the US in the majority of those cases.