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muriel_volestrangler

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2. Interestingly, Minnesota has by far the lowest ratio of active cases to total of any state
Thu Mar 26, 2020, 05:07 PM
Mar 2020
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

210/346, or 61%; everywhere else is up in the 90 percents, even Washington which was the first apparent hotspot.

Minnesota's early case numbers bear a remarkable similarity to the Fibonacci sequence, until 16th March:

https://www.health.state.mn.us/diseases/coronavirus/situation.html



I wonder if that, combined, shows many of their cases were earlier than realised, and the testing was catching up with the situation.
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