Deaths in US multiplied by 10 in one week

[left-of-center2012]

I heard this on Wolf Blitzer (no link) :

A week ago there were about 8,000 case of the coronavirus in the US.
Today it's over 80,000.

A week ago there were a little over 100 deaths in the US from the coronavirus in the US.
Today it's over 1,000.

And Trump wants to open things up in two weeks
and get people out of their homes
and back to work.

I hazard to guess what the numbers will be in two weeks,
when Trump says the churches will be filled with people at Easter.

I feel like I'm living out an episode of "The Twilight Zone".

“There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity.

It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge.

This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone.”

[guillaumeb]

1. The Trumplight Zone?

In 1980, it was the Reagan Zone.

[florida08]

2. Never lived thru anything like this

And if the virus isn't bad enough we just 3.3 million much needed jobs. It feels so surreal. Yet it's so quiet in my neighborhood where kids are usually outside playing in the cool of the evening. Why in the world are people hoarding bathroom tissue?
Reminds me of the Mark Wahlberg film "The Happening"

[left-of-center2012]

5. "it's so quiet in my neighborhood"

Same where I live here in Albuquerque, N.M.

I live in an apartment complex with 8 buildings and there's always heavy foot traffic.
Especially people going to work, coming home, kids to/from school.

Now, dead quiet.

[jberryhill]

3. And they will do so in the next week

That’s how exponential growth works.

There’s no sign of an inflection point yet.

We went from 100 to 1000 deaths.

It will be heading toward 10,000 at the end of next week.

[Marrah_Goodman]

4. There have been 1201 deaths in the US so far

not over 10k

[left-of-center2012]

6. Thanks

I've corrected it.