Coronavirus patients start to overwhelm US hospitals

Re:Coronavirus patients start to overwhelm US hospitals by steveeq1 on Thursday March 26, 2020 @11:09AM (#22694260)

You can use the same argument for flu deaths, heart disease deaths, diabetes deaths, etc. The numbers that you pay attention to are dependent on what is popular right now.

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Re:Coronavirus patients start to overwhelm US hospitals by mushbino on Thursday March 26, 2020 @11:16AM (#22694338)

The difference is the rate of those aren't doubling every three days.

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Re:Coronavirus patients start to overwhelm US hospitals by thu2111 on Thursday March 26, 2020 @03:05PM (#22696749)

Hmm. This comment got me curious.

Using CDC's FluView app I looked at the 2017/2018 flu season to see what the doubling time was. It's not 3 days indeed. It varied quite significantly during the outbreak, but there were periods where it was doubling approximately every week. Potentially faster I suppose depending on how closely people were looking for it (not that close if I understand correctly for most flus).

Viruses can grow pretty fast.

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Re:Coronavirus patients start to overwhelm US hospitals by steveeq1 on Thursday March 26, 2020 @11:32AM (#22694529)

This is true and conceded, but that wasn't my argument.

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