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Re:California governor issues statewide 'stay at home' order by icedistilled on Thursday March 19, 2020 @11:51PM (#22634677)
>Take deaths, multiply by 400 and that's how many cases you have. This comes from the assumption of 1% mortality and 3 weeks to die.

So that 400 multiplier gives the number of cases as of 3 weeks prior to the death count used in the calculation?

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Re:California governor issues statewide 'stay at home' order by hilbertseries on Friday March 20, 2020 @03:50AM (#22635817)
The people didn't all die on the same day though...
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Re:California governor issues statewide 'stay at home' order by inventtheday on Friday March 20, 2020 @12:18AM (#22634835)
yeah it would have to, right?
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