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Old 07-04-2020, 06:13 PM   #724
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Originally Posted by PugnaciousIntern View Post
With 57% of Canada’s population, they have a total of 181% more cases and climbing quickly. For reference, their 11k+ cases today compare with Canada’s 225 cases so far today, and our absolute peak was just under 2k/day. If they managed to plateau their exponential growth now, it would only take them 9 days to accumulate the total number of cases in Canada.

This is all while trying to reopen their economy and very poor compliance with social distancing and PPE. I mourn the present but also what this could become, in short order.

The death rate is very low relative to the number of cases, I wonder what’s going on:
- virus is losing it virility
- younger patients
- catching more asymptotic people
- better treatments
- cooking the books
- ....

If the hospitals start overflowing the number will ramp up but it’s currently very low compared to the recent sustained positive test rate.
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