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stillcool

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20. kind of hard to count test results..

Reply to USALiberal (Original post)

Tue Mar 10, 2020, 03:01 PM

Mar 2020

without the tests. I don't know if the parameters for being 'eligible' for a test have changed, if more tests have been provided by private companies and indivduals..like Bill Gates in Washington State, and I don't know what the CDC is reporting. So...who the eff knows? Looking at other countries, the results in no way match ours. Like Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, or Katrina in New Orleans, or how many Iraqi's were killed, we will never know. We don't do numbers very well.

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So, are there really only about 800 COVID cases in the USA? [View all] USALiberal Mar 2020 OP

I suspect it is closer to 80000 than it is to 800. LonePirate Mar 2020 #1

Since January Native Mar 2020 #5

No... there are at LEAST 5000+ cases lapfog_1 Mar 2020 #2

Co-sign..here to back you up, when someone inevitably comes dewsgirl Mar 2020 #7

Thanks... but I am a scientist... not an MD or epidemiologist lapfog_1 Mar 2020 #14

I wish you were wrong as well. I have dewsgirl Mar 2020 #16

But deaths would be hard to hide, and it is only 28 so far.... USALiberal Mar 2020 #17

2-3 weeks. Ms. Toad Mar 2020 #29

OK, that explains it!! Thanks as always! nt USALiberal Mar 2020 #31

You might be right as to a realistic count as of today. Wellstone ruled Mar 2020 #21

I'm with you. Off by 10x. Pobeka Mar 2020 #24

Until we have a R0 number it's impossible to predict Marrah_Goodman Mar 2020 #28

That's what you get when there aren't facilities to test or process in a timely manner uppityperson Mar 2020 #3

My guess is that there are at least 2000+ in the US alone. flying_wahini Mar 2020 #4

Experts have been saying it's more like 20,000 based on modeling Native Mar 2020 #6

Yes..all across the nation.😔 dewsgirl Mar 2020 #8

So shouldn't the deaths be closer to 500? Unless those are not reported. Nt USALiberal Mar 2020 #11

Many are in early stages and not yet if ever in crisis. Big Blue Marble Mar 2020 #18

Thanks for the info!! nt USALiberal Mar 2020 #19

Not reported. Ratios vary too. Depends on lots of factors. Native Mar 2020 #25

many more. so many people don't want to go to the doc fearful of what the cost will be... Javaman Mar 2020 #9

Don't you think it's odd how well spread out all those few cases are? enki23 Mar 2020 #10

This message was self-deleted by its author democratisphere Mar 2020 #12

Currently, my State, New Mexico, is showing zero cases. TygrBright Mar 2020 #13

Thanks! Nt USALiberal Mar 2020 #15

kind of hard to count test results.. stillcool Mar 2020 #20

I bet TheFarseer Mar 2020 #22

A terrifying, and sad truth. n/t Pobeka Mar 2020 #26

+1 uponit7771 Mar 2020 #30

There was one case in Kentucky yesterday( a Walmart employee), Bayard Mar 2020 #23

Wasn't it Trump who last week claimed that there were only 15 and soon to be zero? Tommy_Carcetti Mar 2020 #27

Hopefully 🤞 Raine Mar 2020 #32

We did see +272 cases today Dem2 Mar 2020 #33