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Re:California governor issues statewide 'stay at home' order by blencdr on Friday March 20, 2020 @01:43AM (#22635262)
Right, in some countries doubling was every 3 days.
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Re:California governor issues statewide 'stay at home' order by mikekchar on Friday March 20, 2020 @03:07AM (#22635630)
Have a look at this site: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

Scroll down to "Daily New Cases in the United States". No real need to extrapolate data from other countries. New cases are doubling every 2-3 days.

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Re:California governor issues statewide 'stay at home' order by btilly on Friday March 20, 2020 @07:50AM (#22636796)
Those aren't cases, those are confirmed cases. Which has more to do with how much testing we have done than how many are sick.
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Re:California governor issues statewide 'stay at home' order by pintxo on Friday March 20, 2020 @04:40AM (#22636032)
Problem with looking at case numbers is, you need to know how many tests have been executed. If they doubled the number of tests within those 3 days, then you measure the increase in tests, not an increase in cases.
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Re:California governor issues statewide 'stay at home' order by paganel on Friday March 20, 2020 @02:16AM (#22635404)
That was the case for Italy until 4-5 days ago and I think it still is for Spain, definitely for Germany.
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