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Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi
Got it, thanks.
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I don't mean to sound defeatist (is that the right word?), but I'm afraid many countries could end up with numbers similar to italy (I obviously hope it won't be the case, but what i read about other countries "reactions" and statistics like the data h8kurdt posted in the previous post aren't exaclty encouraging).
for the US, CDC data says this, updated to March 20 (Am I the only one who finds the fact that tey won't update data on weekends simply laughable?)
I'll check back on monday and see what their report says
( see here
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019...ses-in-us.html ), but from other sources those figures have already almost doubled in less than a couple days.
There's the risk of a steep rising curve in every country from the start of proper testing/reporting, basically. And in the weeks before proper testing a lot of people who died from flu-like symptoms could well have been infected with covid with nobody specifically checking for it before/after death.
Again, little disclaimer, I'm not a virologist nor a physician, I'm just trying to keep up with some infos I gather.
Don't take my posts in this thread as pessimistic/negative/sad , that's not my intention at all, I'm just sharing some data I find interesting.
And don't ask me to
define interesting...