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NRaleighLiberal

(60,014 posts) Wed Mar 11, 2020, 07:30 PM Mar 2020

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

we are finally doing some testing, it seems. Poor Italy... devastating. I suspect it will soon be poor us.

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Latest Worldometer shows big jump in US cases and deaths (Original Post) NRaleighLiberal Mar 2020 OP

306 new cases today, a 30% increase. ny USALiberal Mar 2020 #1

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1. 306 new cases today, a 30% increase. ny

Wed Mar 11, 2020, 07:34 PM

Mar 2020

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2. what stands out is the last column - cases per million. We are an outlier by a lot

Wed Mar 11, 2020, 07:36 PM

Mar 2020

due I suspect to totally inadequate testing and reporting.

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3. I agree, I see people saying we are 2 weeks behind Italy. We will see. nt

Wed Mar 11, 2020, 07:42 PM

Mar 2020

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4. I wonder what Germany is doing relatively "right" in that their death number is unusually low