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And the Trump administration's estimates from today are 100,000 to 240,000 deaths in the US alone: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/01/coronavirus-could-kill-more-

And the Trump administration's estimates from today are 100,000 to 240,000 deaths in the US alone: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/01/coronavirus-could-kill-more-americans-than-some-wars.html https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/01/coronavirus-could-kill-more-... Several million worldwide seems very possible. People downplaying this for too long is a large part of why it's gotten so bad already. Why worry? There's only 15 cases in the US. Why worry? There's only 15 cases in my state. Why worry? There's only 15 cases in my county. Who knows what it will look like in 2 weeks.

Kye 7y ago
This is correct. There were 1.9k new cases on the first of March. The dashboards I checked were out of date, but the latest is 75k new cases on the 30th. The curve ramped up around the 12th. And that's only people who were able to get a test. We have no idea how big this thing is. Anyone would recognize that kind of growth as a breakout success if it were users on an app, but somehow they don't recognize the pattern with a disease.
- oxide 7y ago
  I thought it would hit people how serious it was when sports stopped, movies stopped releasing, kids couldnt go to schools and people started scalping toilet paper.