"Canada has tested more people than in the U.S. despite having about one-tenth the population"

[left-of-center2012]

Canada has tested more people than in the U.S. despite having about one-tenth the population and is continue to ramp up its testing capacity, Trudeau said. In a separate briefing Friday, Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam said that the nation has tested over 380,000 people and 5% have tested positive.

“The lead that we’ve taken on testing is part of why we are seeing a flatter curve than other places,” Trudeau said in Ottawa. The nation has had over 21,000 Covid-19 cases and more than 500 deaths.

“We will not get back to the normal that we had before at least until we have developed a vaccine for the virus -- that is the reality.” A vaccine could take anywhere from 6 months to a year and a half, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said.

The country is currently in the “first and worst phase” of the coronavirus, and modeling shows that in a best-case scenario it could emerge relatively quickly if people observe social distancing so as to minimize the burden on the health system, Trudeau said at a press conference in Ottawa Friday.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-10/trudeau-says-partial-return-to-work-by-summer-possible-in-canada?srnd=politics-vp

[Shermann]

1. 6 months for a vaccine?

That's the most optimistic estimate I've heard to date.

[Igel]

3. Can't be optimistic.

If you're optimistic and in the US government it's the kiss of death and you're obviously raising hopes to kill everybody on Earth. I mean, the US government's policies are responsible for the US, France, Italy, Spain, and every place else apart S. Korea, Taiwan, the glorious example of China, and Singapore.

Seriously--people are given the stock answer. There are standard approval times for these things. But if there are 2k people dying a day and it's looking like one of the vaccines confers at least partial immunity before the clinical trials are over, that mRNA vaccine will be rushed into manufacture in every facility that can produce it and it'll be given out at Walgeens, CVS, and whatever drug stores you have in your area. That standard approval time will be curtailed.

They're trying a new kind of vaccine, If it works, it should be a lot easier to gear up to make a lot of it faster than traditional vaccines. https://horizon-magazine.eu/article/five-things-you-need-know-about-mrna-vaccines.html

[BGBD]

8. rushing

a vaccine to the public before clinical trials could even be finished would be a disaster waiting to happen.

It would be a mistake to start pumping something into a few billion people when you don't have enough data to actually understand what it is going to do, how effective it is going to be, or for how long.

[LuvLoogie]

2. According to Worldometer, the U.S. has tested 2,538,888 to date,

Canada about 370,000. That's 9,812 tests per million versus the U.S. 7670 per million.

We are approaching 1% of the U.S. population tested.

[Cha]

4. Canada has a Leader.. We have a Ghoul.

[bdamomma]

5. That's

the difference between an educated man PM Trudeau, and someone who cares about his citizens.

The US is a disgrace and killing its citizens.

[colsohlibgal]

6. Testing Is Key

We need mass organized testing, it is ridiculous we haven’t done that

Once we test, those with the antibodies, thus immune, could go back to school, work, etc.

We could have done that months ago if we had a competent leader, not the dumb crooked fool we have. I remember how organized the oral polio vaccine was rolled out to everyone. You had a day and time to go to your assigned location, they checked you off, then you were led to where you took the vaccine. I was young but clearly remember it. The difference back then is we had a competent President who possessed something Trump doesn’t, empathy.

Trump is a fool, a dumb crooked Creep who is Nothing but a con man.

[BGBD]

7. They haven't

tested more than the US. The US has tested like 8.5x more people than Canada.

Canada, and lots of other nations, have tested a larger proportion of their populations than the US, however.