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Re:Denmarks shuts down all schools, daycare facilities, univ... by 0xfaded on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @05:31PM (#22550964)
I live in Denmark and have been following this way too closely. I think we will be Italy within the next two weeks. Until today people have been completely unconcerned. But in the last three days the number of detected cases has jumped from 37 to 92 to 264 to 516. Nobody was taking this seriously until today, and there's just no way this hasn't already spread across the country undetected.
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Re:Denmarks shuts down all schools, daycare facilities, univ... by acqq on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @06:10PM (#22551350)
The number of "detected" cases is influenced by the testing capability of those performing the tests. In a few days the real average "growth" rate will be clearer, but until the effects of some strong enough measures start to affect the numbers nobody can expect anything much better than what we see in Italy -- the curves across the Europe have "similar" growth:

https://twitter.com/MarkJHandley/status/1237781162153717760

or

https://twitter.com/illandancient/status/1237857213621907456

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Re:Denmarks shuts down all schools, daycare facilities, univ... by 0xfaded on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @06:18PM (#22551414)
Sorry for not being clear. The point I'm making is exactly that people have been complacent due to the low numbers, primarily sure to inadequate testing.
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