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It was easy to see the future: you just look up on the wiki the evolution of numbers of confirmed cases in the EU countries.
by de_watcher 7y ago
It was easy to see the future: you just look up on the wiki the evolution of numbers of confirmed cases in the EU countries.
- baron_harkonnen 7y agoGiven that the US is now neck and neck with Italy to be the first country to have more cases than China, we have been wildly exceeding any estimates based on EU countries.
- simonh 7y agoTo be fair the US has a population more similar in scale to that of Europe than to that of any single European country.
- SlowRobotAhead 7y agoWouldn’t cases per capita be more important than cases total? And don’t cases recognized under back to testing? As in does anyone really believe Russia has zeros cases?
- de_watcher 7y agoBigger population means more movement and more points of entry so the absolute numbers are proportionally bigger. Growth percentages looked scary for several days. So probably there were indeed some differences in the ramping up of testing.
- rsynnott 7y agoThe US's rate per capita is still only about 20% Italy's. For now.
- thomascgalvin 7y agoIf America was willing to learn lessons based on data from Europe, we'd all have universal health care by now.
- fiftyfifty 7y agoActually the EU is a great preview of where the US is headed in the next weeks: As of today so far (March 26th) the EU has about 237,000 positives and about 14,200 deaths with over 1,000 deaths in the last 24 hours so far. The numbers for France and Italy haven't been reported yet for the 26th of March so it's likely the totals by the end of the day will be somewhere around 250,000 positive cases and roughly 15,000 total deaths with close to 2,000 deaths in a single 24 hour period. It is not hard at all to see the US having similar numbers in the coming weeks.