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Re:The Doctor Who Helped Defeat Smallpox Explains What's Coming by chris_f on Saturday March 21, 2020 @09:58AM (#22646496)
One hopefully positive indicator is that yesterday new daily deaths in the US were lower than the day before (49 vs 57) [0].

Obviously it's only one day so time will tell if that means anything or a pattern occurs. As others have said, the stats for number of people affected is so closely linked to testing rates which have been increasing that this could be a more indicative metric to follow.

[0] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

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Re:The Doctor Who Helped Defeat Smallpox Explains What's Coming by marvin on Saturday March 21, 2020 @10:01AM (#22646512)
I'm sorry to say it, but that's just noise in the data. The death numbers in the United States will follow an exponential curve for a long time yet. Two weeks would be the absolute minimum before the shutdowns have an effect, but I think a month or two is a more realistic hope.
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