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Re:‘God preserve us all’: Samuel Pepys and the Great Plague ... by Symmetry on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @10:45AM (#22546256)
The US only had 15,000 polio cases in 1900. Right now there are only 1,000 known Covid-19 cases in the US but that number is doubling faster than once a week and without people freaking out about it it'll end up infecting more than 50% of the population in a few months.
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Re:‘God preserve us all’: Samuel Pepys and the Great Plague ... by UncleOxidant on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @11:02AM (#22546388)
> Right now there are only 1,000 known Covid-19 cases in the US

With the emphasis on known. More likely it's 10X or 20X that right now because there's been very little testing in the US.

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