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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt's the American virus now. 23.5% of all new cases worldwide are here in the u.s.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/Igel
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(52,291 posts)marble falls
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(52,291 posts)StarryNite
(9,458 posts)it's okay to mingle now. Fill up those churches! Spread the love and the virus. He wants America to be #1 at everything.
NickB79
(19,257 posts)65,000 and rising, with over 900 dead. We'll break 1,000 dead by tomorrow morning. 100,000 cases by Saturday.
denem
(11,045 posts)NickB79
(19,257 posts)UNITED STATES CASES
Updated Mar 25 at 6:32 PM local
Confirmed
64,675
+20,801
Deaths
910
+352
Recovered
393
+215
pat_k
(9,313 posts)Different parts of the world are testing, and detecting, at such radically different rates, we really have no idea what percent of the world's cases are within our borders.
The big jumps are due primarily to the skyrocketing testing rate in NY and WA... and increasing rates in other states.
See this post for an interesting article ("Using a delay-adjusted case fatality ratio to estimate under-reporting" )
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=13173356
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(52,291 posts)In any event, it's clear we're at the epicenter of the pandemic now.
pat_k
(9,313 posts)... anywhere near reality, the true number of cases in the US is more like 440,000 than 66,000 (they estimate that the number detected is something like 12 to 18% of actual).