id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-325956-1kxxg0s9 Potluri, Rahul Making sense of the Global Coronavirus Data: The role of testing rates in understanding the pandemic and our exit strategy 2020-04-11 .txt text/plain 3967 217 62 We analysed the number of diagnostic tests performed in proportion to the number of cases and subsequently deaths across different countries and projected pandemic outcomes. Country wise population level pandemic projections were extrapolated utilising three models 1) inherent case per test and death per test rates at the time of obtaining the data (4/4/2020 0900 BST) for each country; 2) rates adjusted according to the countries who conducted at least 100000 tests and 3) rates adjusted according to South Korea. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.06.20054239 doi: medRxiv preprint Discussion COVID-19 statistics are complex and comparing different countries based on number of total cases, deaths and/or case fatality rate does not show the complete picture (Table 1) . In our analyses we showed the deaths and cases in relation to the number of tests performed and presented population level pandemic projections based on these. ./cache/cord-325956-1kxxg0s9.txt ./txt/cord-325956-1kxxg0s9.txt