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Newsom's CA estimate is roughly the same percentage as the nationwide estimates by the CDC: "Between 160 million and 214 million people in the United States cou
by xenocyon 7y ago
Newsom's CA estimate is roughly the same percentage as the nationwide estimates by the CDC: "Between 160 million and 214 million people in the United States could be infected over the course of the epidemic" (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/us/coronavirus-deaths-estimate.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/us/coronavirus-deaths-est...)
- vearwhershuh 7y agoI don't know where you live, but where I live they have issued a shelter in place order and my understanding is that this is widespread. If 56% of the state gets the virus under a shelter in place order, either we all already have it or the virus is so virulent that even limited runs for essentials is extremely risky.
- WalterSear 7y agoNewsom's statement qualified that the calculations did not take shelter-in-place into account.