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Ok, I was under the mistaken impression that we likely have a lot of cases, just under reported due to lack of tests. Perhaps we really only have ~5000, I had
by peteradio 7y ago
Ok, I was under the mistaken impression that we likely have a lot of cases, just under reported due to lack of tests. Perhaps we really only have ~5000, I had thought it was >100000.
- Maro 7y agoThere's various factors that contribute to underreporting: - not enough testing / 80% of people have mild/no symptoms - cases reported today were contracted ~5 days ago, so there's always roughly a doubling in the pipeline Right now the official case number is ~3k for the US. Focusing too much on the number doesn't help (it will keep going up for a while), what matters is doing things which will stop the spread.