Making sense of the Global Coronavirus Data: The role of testing rates in understanding the pandemic and our exit strategy

Rahul Potluri; Deepthi Lavu

It is also no coincidence that none of the top 10 countries in table 4 or table 5 have tested at least 1% of the total population. We looked at the countries that have tested at least 1% of their populations and looked at their cases fatality rate. We excluded the 10 th country on the list -Italy because of its high case fatality rate of 12.25%. All other countries had a case fatality rate of 3% or lower. We then correlated the case fatality rate with percentage of the population tested as shown in figure 1. This approach showed higher percentage of population tested in countries with lower populations who have tested a higher proportion of their total population, but not in all cases. Both . CC-BY 4.0 International license It is made available under a is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity.