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Re:Open letter from Italy to the international scientific co... by tcbawo on Saturday March 14, 2020 @10:00PM (#22580531)
The state of Ohio has only 26 confirmed cases, but two days ago the Director of the Ohio Department of Health estimated that 1% of the state's population (100k) may be infected due to the high ratio of cases being community-spread [1].

This is the likely reason for such a high number of celebrities in the news testing positive -- it's already everywhere; they are the only ones getting tested.

[1] https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/ohio-de...

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Re:Open letter from Italy to the international scientific co... by lojack on Saturday March 14, 2020 @11:25PM (#22580980)
Not to downplay things, but celebrities may also be more likely to get it because they travel a lot and are in close contact with a lot of other people who also travel a lot.
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Re:Open letter from Italy to the international scientific co... by seganddr on Saturday March 14, 2020 @10:40PM (#22580772)
That 100k number is for the whole world. It was a poorly worded tweet
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Re:Open letter from Italy to the international scientific co... by cmurf on Sunday March 15, 2020 @03:59AM (#22582075)
She said it out loud. There's nothing confusing or ambiguous about it. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/top-ohio-health-offi...
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