(03-29-2020, 04:40 AM)skyking Wrote: Yesterday
3/27 in the US
~105,000 known cases = +22% known
~1700 deaths = +30% deaths
In Washington:
3723 known = + 16%
175 deaths = + 19%
Today
3/28 in the US
~125,000 = +19.5% known
~2200 = +30% deaths
In Washington
4310 = +15.7% known cases
189 = +8% deaths
I know these are people and families. I can quit this if anybody wants me to.
The media hypes it up so much but the curve is flattening.
https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-...-us-states.
States aren’t testing uniformly for coronavirus. That’s creating a distorted picture of the outbreak.
Quote:The United States has surpassed the rest of the world in the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19, with 85,762, as of today (March 27). That came as no surprise to most experts, as it took seven weeks after the first case of the disease was identified in the U.S. for the country to start testing en masse — plenty of time for the SARS-CoV-2 virus to spread, undetected.
Now, 10 weeks after the country's first case, testing in the U.S. is beginning to ramp up significantly, but not uniformly. As of Thursday (March 26), 20 states were only up to a testing rate of 1 per 1,000 people. And six states had tested fewer than 1,000 people. That means it's difficult to know, based on reported numbers alone, how widely the coronavirus is circulating in a given state or community.
“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.” -Carl Sagan.
