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Originally Posted by gullfoss View Post
cases have gone from 1000 to 80,000 in the past 4-6 weeks. And that's with containment policies in place. It's plausible exponential growth continues...that's 80,000% growth. Extrapolation gets you to as many as 7,000,000 infected a month from now and a world wide epidemic at the end of april. Even if the rate slows markedly, it delays an arguably inevitable outcome only 2-4 months.
The financial markets are catching on about a week late...
80,000/1000= 80,000%
Thought that would be 7,900% ?
80,000 minus 1,000 divided by 1000 X 100%
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