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Re:NY launches live dashboard of each regions progress hitti... by mcnamaratw on Monday May 11, 2020 @06:30PM (#23147913)
Not disagreeing, but don't forget how fast this thing can grow. It was doubling ... every 2 or 3 days? Smaller infected population buys you weeks of time, but that's all.
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Re:NY launches live dashboard of each regions progress hitti... by romwell on Monday May 11, 2020 @08:10PM (#23149047)
Exactly. And that's why it's important to remember that CA governor has issued as shelter-in-place order ahead of NY, while we had a 1/10X infection rate, which more than halved the slope of growth on the log scale.
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Re:NY launches live dashboard of each regions progress hitti... by mcnamaratw on Monday May 11, 2020 @09:08PM (#23149483)
Sure. I think everybody remembers. I imagine the actions by CA's governor not only saved a lot of lives in CA, but probably helped NY get its rear in gear.

But I'm saying something different: A full reopen without proper precautions would put CA right where NY was, in a surprisingly short time.

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