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Re:Federal Reserve slashes interest rates to zero by digitaltrees on Monday March 16, 2020 @12:01AM (#22589796)
You don’t have an accurate sample size if you don’t measure. Based on the growth rates over time in every other country, the US should have way more cases. There are only a few thousand because we aren’t measuring.

FYI the governor of Ohio estimates 100,000 people in Ohio are infected. So there is that.

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Re:Federal Reserve slashes interest rates to zero by gremlinsinc on Monday March 16, 2020 @03:33AM (#22590769)
He's way off, he's a Republican and more cases = better for them, because that means this has a CFR of < 1%... my guess would maybe be more like 100-1k, but that doubles in 6 days to 200-2k, then 300-3k...etc... in 20 days it could be 100k though.. but the hospital's would be extended beyond belief, and I haven't heard reports of that yet.
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