I know in Alabama to even be admitted to the hospital you have to have a test. My grandfather just had to go to the hospital and ended up with 3 different tests, all came back negative luckily.
Also they're testing people post-mortem to see if they had it when they passed.
One thing I do find very intersting is Europe's death/infection rate vs the US. So as of today, the US had ~5.3M total cases, with 168k deaths. Thats a death rate of 3.2% of the people who have tested positive for it.
I took a sample of some of the largest countries in Europe (Germany, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, and Poland) and while their total cases are much lower, at ~1.5M, the deaths were nearly equal to the US at 161k. That's a death rate of 10.8%, which is crazy high.
So that makes me wonder, is the US just able to keep people alive better, or is Europe not picking up on a lot of their positives? It's also possible that the US is counting every single positive test as its own case, even if the same person gets tested multiple times while infected. That would mean we have fewer people who actually have the virus, but our death rate would actually be higher.
Either way, this is not something you want to get, whether sick or healthy. The best chance of surivavl is 97%, but could be as low as 85%... I don't like those odds at all. I don't care if they say a young, healthy person has a better chance, it's not a guarantee.