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Old 14 March 2020, 04:39 PM   #1944
coffeebreak
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the Coronavirus outbreak thread

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Originally Posted by TheVTCGuy View Post
There are 8 confirmed cases in my hometown of San Diego (county wide). Out of a population of over two MILLION. So... roughly saying, the odds are around 250,000 to 1 of contracting this virus... even less of suffering long term health problems and even less of dying from it.

I don’t see what the panic is about.




So keep in mind, that doesn’t say 2,500 total cases, it’s says 2,500 new cases that day

On Valentine’s Day, would anyone have believed it if someone said the entire country of Italy will go into lockdown by mid March? It was the whole “no need to panic” perspective that led Italy to its crisis now.
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