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brooklynite

(96,882 posts) Thu Mar 12, 2020, 04:30 PM Mar 2020

NYC COVID-19 cases essentially doubled overnight...

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NYC COVID-19 cases essentially doubled overnight... (Original Post) brooklynite Mar 2020 OP

That's how chain reactions work. Girard442 Mar 2020 #1

No word of any change in Illinois. I am sure we have more than 25 now. No tests mucifer Mar 2020 #2

Damn! leftieNanner Mar 2020 #3

And it's said to grow exponentially C_U_L8R Mar 2020 #4

Mucifer, I thought I read bamagal62 Mar 2020 #5

Just remember - Ms. Toad Mar 2020 #6

Girard442

(6,917 posts)

1. That's how chain reactions work.

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Thu Mar 12, 2020, 04:34 PM

Mar 2020

mucifer

(25,729 posts)

2. No word of any change in Illinois. I am sure we have more than 25 now. No tests

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Thu Mar 12, 2020, 04:35 PM

Mar 2020

is what I am guessing. Not good for Chicago

leftieNanner

(16,170 posts)

3. Damn!

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Thu Mar 12, 2020, 04:36 PM

Mar 2020

My daughter lives in NYC. I just texted her and told her to wash her hands!!

Once a Mom, always a Mom.

C_U_L8R

(49,532 posts)

4. And it's said to grow exponentially

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Thu Mar 12, 2020, 04:37 PM

Mar 2020

bamagal62

(4,557 posts)

5. Mucifer, I thought I read

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Thu Mar 12, 2020, 04:48 PM

Mar 2020

Somewhere that Illinois had developed their own test and have them in 4 clinics in Chicago and 2 other cities in the state??? Maybe I am remembering wrong???

Ms. Toad

(38,824 posts)

6. Just remember -

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Thu Mar 12, 2020, 04:56 PM

Mar 2020

right now we're seeing some increases that are solely the result of access to testing.

It's been doubling about every 6 days (China was 7 - we've been 6, so far). So watch over a few days and remember the steep 1-2 day jump in China cases when they changed the testing criteria.

(That is NOT to say you should be complacent - just that some of what we are seeing now is exaggerated because or our piss-poor ability to test before now.)

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