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Re:Coronavirus patients start to overwhelm US hospitals by DanBC on Thursday March 26, 2020 @11:39AM (#22694613)
A stable 80 deaths per day isn't that many, it's only 29,200 people per year.

But with covid-19 the numbers of people dying is doubling every 3 days.

80, 160, 320, 640, 1280, 2560, 5120, 10,240, 20,480

Potentially Covid-19 would hit that 29200 figure in about 25 days from today.

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Re:Coronavirus patients start to overwhelm US hospitals by drstewart on Thursday March 26, 2020 @11:48AM (#22694727)
Keep extrapolating and you'll find 2.5 trillion people will be dead just a week after that.
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Re:Coronavirus patients start to overwhelm US hospitals by DanBC on Thursday March 26, 2020 @11:58AM (#22694863)
Look at Italy; look at Spain. These are not unreasonable extrapolations.
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Re:Coronavirus patients start to overwhelm US hospitals by brenden2 on Thursday March 26, 2020 @12:57PM (#22695516)
Neither of them have exponential growth. The rate of growth has steadily decreased after the first initial spike of cases.
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Re:Coronavirus patients start to overwhelm US hospitals by gpderetta on Thursday March 26, 2020 @01:06PM (#22695629)
The growth seems to be tapering off after extreme lockdown measures have been taken.
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Re:Coronavirus patients start to overwhelm US hospitals by DanBC on Friday March 27, 2020 @04:18AM (#22701177)
Of deaths? Here's Spain. They implemented lockdown on about the 7th of March.

https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/spain/

   8th   17 deaths
  11th   55 
  14th  196 
  17th  533
  20th 1093
  23rd 2311
  26th 4365
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