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> the number of active infections could reach 1,100 by March 10 That's today. How old is this article?
by everybodyknows 7y ago
> the number of active infections could reach 1,100 by March 10
That's today. How old is this article?
- zaroth 7y agoIt says story was posted March 9th. Written some number of days before that? And what is that stat in reference to; the whole US or just WA? I can only guess that someone other than the author wrote the closing paragraph, but it’s clearly wrong.
- KaoruAoiShiho 7y agoKnown cases is all about testing.
- downerending 7y agoDoes anyone think the number today could possibly be this low?
- empath75 7y agoit's probably already 10 times that.
- hef19898 7y agoReported 647 across the US, 162 in Washington. Obviously that number is severely limited by testing capacity. But they are the only numbers to go with, everything else is just guessing.
- downerending 7y agoGiven that we know testing is behind, and that patients take about five days (?) to show symptoms, and that it's an exponential growth phenomenon, and that we have several other countries farther along in the process to observe, I'd say an educated guess is a lot better to go with than those numbers.
- dredmorbius 7y agoThat would be in the Seattle area. Total cases within the US -- actual, not "confirmed", likely represents a ~2 week lag. Based on reported cases, the US has seen about an 85x growth rate over 2 weeks. That would give ~150k cases presently in the US. Reported is now 640 cases, 26 deaths.