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Blue_true

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25. I think that with southern states opening things up,

Reply to Pacifist Patriot (Reply #13)

Tue Apr 21, 2020, 08:58 PM

Apr 2020

who knows where this ends. The death rate in Sweden is 10x that of it's neighbors and Sweden's infection curve is still rising while it's neighbors are clearly on the down slope. Sweden chose to stay open and do marginal social distancing, the neighbors locked down. The southern states have more people that the virus has shown a tendency to kill. The death number could easily balloon to 100,000 within the next month, like you indicated, by Mother's Day.

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Closing in on 44,000 deaths and 1,500 new deaths. [View all] gibraltar72 Apr 2020 OP

I'm showing over 20,000 new cases. Squinch Apr 2020 #1

Yeah fucked that up will edit. gibraltar72 Apr 2020 #2

. Squinch Apr 2020 #4

Getting real close to that 60,000 prediction that Trump keeps talking about. Arkansas Granny Apr 2020 #3

60k? RRDrummer Apr 2020 #8

There's been 38,000 US deaths (at least) in the 20 days since April 1. I think 70,000 is still OnDoutside Apr 2020 #17

Here's the prediction. Arkansas Granny Apr 2020 #20

Yeah, he's gotta beat the Vietnam War... kentuck Apr 2020 #10

Governors and Chinese. nt Midnightwalk Apr 2020 #11

Sure! Newest Reality Apr 2020 #5

And a tattoo. gibraltar72 Apr 2020 #6

And nails central scrutinizer Apr 2020 #18

I think when we hit 50K cilla4progress Apr 2020 #7

It will be either tomorrow or the day after if we continue at the rate we've had for the last week. Pacifist Patriot Apr 2020 #12

I know... cilla4progress Apr 2020 #15

I suspect the Venn Diagram may also be a Euler diagram on that one. Pacifist Patriot Apr 2020 #16

At this rate we will be past 60,000 deaths by the middle of next month standingtall Apr 2020 #9

If the average deaths per day that we've seen for the last six days continues... Pacifist Patriot Apr 2020 #13

I think that with southern states opening things up, Blue_true Apr 2020 #25

More like before this month is over. Blue_true Apr 2020 #24

So only about 16,000 more deaths until August then. Buckeye_Democrat Apr 2020 #14

But anything less than 2.2 million central scrutinizer Apr 2020 #19

+1 uponit7771 Apr 2020 #26

We'll hit it by the end of the month for sure greenjar_01 Apr 2020 #22

+1, the death rates are flat and the infections keep peaking according to JK site looks like overt uponit7771 Apr 2020 #27

Up to 2,500 U.S. deaths today per Worldometer... blitzen Apr 2020 #21

Yeah still some states to report. I think Texas dribbles its numbers gibraltar72 Apr 2020 #23

45,318 now Celerity Apr 2020 #28