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First US Coronavirus Deaths Took Place Weeks Before Initially Thought (thehill.com) 6
Santa Clara County officials did not identify either of the two individuals who died, whether they had traveled to Wuhan or elsewhere, or whether they had contact with the few people who had been diagnosed with the disease before they died. But reclassifying their deaths as related to the coronavirus suggests the virus had been spreading through the United States for much longer than was initially thought — potentially for weeks or even months longer.
- by avandesande ( 143899 ) on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @06:05PM (#59977686) Journalhttps://www.cuimc.columbia.edu… [columbia.edu]
Reports are piling up that many more people have been exposed to virus and fatality numbers wildly overstated- by mark-t ( 151149 )The same thing can be said for flu numbers…. for the same reasons
- ORANGE MAN BAD.
- Although the fatality rate in NYC implies that this illness can’t be less bad than the flu, this story and similar information from LA and Boston (https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/04/22/metro/why-number-asymptomatic-coronavirus-cases-matters/) and the French and American aircraft carriers imply that it is not much worse and had already spread far and wide.
- I mean…they are limiting testing; so the number of positive cases compared to the deaths can’t possibly form an accurate number. Some of the people are just “assumed” to have it without a confirmed test and become part of those numbers; which invalidates it from the point of view that confirmed cases should be confirmed cases.
If it was over here a month or so before lockdowns were enacted; chances are the number of people who were infected are going to be much much higher and the number of asymptomatic
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