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| Coronavirus cases are growing faster in red states, new data reveals, with Texas recording a whopping 236% increase in cases in just FOUR DAYS - while infection rates slow in blue state Washington suggesting lockdowns work |
| 2020-03-29 |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #10 Re $8: Not sure we are over the hump here in WA; think we still have a week or so to go. Maybe Seattle, but the smaller towns and rural areas are still fairly unhit, for now. Nursing homes are hot spots; seems many of the staff work multiple jobs at different homes, so they carry the bug w/them. |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2020-03-29 21:32 |
| #9 ^ this |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-03-29 21:01 |
| #8 This is quite possibly the most moronic statistical analysis I have ever seen. Or maybe I'm just angry, because I know the media is probably this dumb regularly. Washington State has pretty clearly burned through the virus. It was the First area to have a major outbreak, and quarantines are working. Also, when major testing started, it also had increases like this. Every state did. New York City had increases far in excess of this (partly because the dumbass mayor told everybody to go out and party). That's what looking for everybody who has it instead of just people showing up deathly ill at a hospital does, it increases the number of cases. Why else do people think nations like India and Indonesia have only a couple thousand cases at most? Nobody is getting tested. Additionally, lockdowns and quarantines, even theoretically, cannot work in less than a week, because almost all infections discovered within the first week have already occurred and are just being registered. |
| Posted by: Vernal Hatrick 2020-03-29 13:52 |
| #7 Once it's working through the population this is inevitable. Kind of like having rats in your pristine basement because the neighbor is a slob. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2020-03-29 13:31 |
| #6 #2 exactly right. You can always get huge percentage increases from a very small base. Sheesh. |
| Posted by: Tom 2020-03-29 12:55 |
| #5 Journolism Barbie: "Math is hard" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-03-29 12:30 |
| #4 Now y'all come to Rantburg, you should know better than to expect the Media types to get something right or accurate or give a FULL reporting of facts. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2020-03-29 12:28 |
| #3 Washington started sooner, should be expected to die down sooner. Sensational journalism! [irony and cynicism intended] |
| Posted by: Bobby 2020-03-29 11:36 |
| #2 Quicker and easier to double 1 than 1,000,000. Doesn't mean that the virus is progressing that much faster. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2020-03-29 11:34 |
| #1 Drill down and find it's blue cities in red states. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-03-29 11:32 |