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Legit/real or not, WH tweet leaks are fantastic entertainment...

The thing I read showed it tended to double about every 3 days...

This is correct. You can spreadsheet it yourself.

89 cases on 3/1
Multiply daily by 1.30 (it's actually more than doubling by a smidge)

You get 1226 cases on 3/11 (we're actually at 1285)

1.3^3 = ~2.2x every 3 days

At that rate, we have
  • ~6000 cases by St Patties' Day
  • 250k by the end of the month
  • 1M by about April 6th
  • >2.5M by April 9th

We'd have >10M by Tax Day.

So, either you start quarantining people in large numbers now, or that's where you end up in about 1 month. Again, that's not being "alarmist"; that is epidemiology math.

That said, the expected doubling time is 6 days, not 3. So some of this may be 'catching up' on testing. But if you do nothing, the math is the same, it just takes a few more days to hit those numbers.
 
The GOOD news here, is that about half the Diamond Princess cruise ship passengers are now listed as "recovered". 7 dead, which is a 1% mortality.

Ergo, this is consistent with the numbers from the Medium article: if your systems are NOT overwhelmed, mortality is 0.5% to 1%. Expect 4% to 5% mortality when those systems can no longer keep up.
 
This is correct. You can spreadsheet it yourself.

89 cases on 3/1
Multiply daily by 1.30 (it's actually more than doubling by a smidge)

You get 1226 cases on 3/11 (we're actually at 1285)

1.3^3 = ~2.2x every 3 days

At that rate, we have
  • ~6000 cases by St Patties' Day
  • 250k by the end of the month
  • 1M by about April 6th
  • >2.5M by April 9th

We'd have >10M by Tax Day.

So, either you start quarantining people in large numbers now, or that's where you end up in about 1 month. Again, that's not being "alarmist"; that is epidemiology math.

That said, the expected doubling time is 6 days, not 3. So some of this may be 'catching up' on testing. But if you do nothing, the math is the same, it just takes a few more days to hit those numbers.
I just got more information from your post than the President revealed tonight.

Thanks, I guess.
 
We're waiting for Jared? To finish his research? And come to his own conclusion?

We're all gonna die


He has to finish reading this books about this to solve it just like he did with the Palestine / Israel issue.

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I'll let one of you guys find an appropriate thread to drop this in. How will limiting medical supplies to American made only benefit anyone in the short term? Well, medically, that is...

 
Feb 26:

"[W]hen you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that's a pretty good job we've done."
 
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