The Number Of Confirmed Coronavirus Cases Is 236 Times Higher Than It Was 2 Weeks Ago

IWB ^ | Michael Snyder

[davikkm]

What is our world going to look like in a few months if the number of coronavirus cases continues to grow at this rate? On January 17th, there were 41 confirmed cases, and now there are 9,692 in China alone. That means that the number of confirmed cases is 236 times larger than it was just 2 weeks ago. I don’t expect the number of cases to be another 236 times larger two weeks from now, but even if the number of cases simply doubles each week, hundreds of millions of people will eventually get this virus. And that would mean that millions upon millions of people would end up dead. Let us pray that such a scenario does not materialize, but at this point it has become exceedingly clear that we are dealing with a very serious health crisis.

Here in the United States, there has only been a handful of confirmed cases so far. But we did just have our first confirmed case of “person-to-person transmission” inside this country…

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Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[dynoman]

I did updates on the ebola outbreak on the thread linked below. Reality turned out to be way different than projections. The updates are the last posts on the thread.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3210773/posts

[SmokingJoe]

Alarmist headlines any?
If there is one instance today and 100 instances next week, that makes it 100 times more next week than this week no?
I doubt if there will be 2.6 million cases next 2 weeks. We are not going to have a geometric progression. It's going to flatten off sooner rather than later.
Personally, I am not the least bit worried about Corona beer, beg your pardon, coronavirus.

[AppyPappy]

My coworker is from Wuhan and she says it is not as bad as the media makes it out to be. A manufactured media storm to sell commercials perhaps? Then Katrina-ize it to attack the President?

[nuconvert]

It’s at 213 as of this morning

[Ancesthntr]

That’s the number of dead, not the number of cases. In both instances, those numbers are what the Chinese government is **telling** us...as they continue the quarantine of 50 million people with their army, and rush to build 2 hospitals in 10 days.

[ifinnegan]

Pimping that blog like Chicken Little.

Sky is falling - give me hits.

[nuconvert]

“That’s the number of dead, not the number of cases”

sorry not enough coffee.

“those numbers are what the Chinese government is **telling** us..”

Of course.

[chemical_boy]

Its all over China, 236X is low balling it by a huge margin

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1a04iBi41DznkMaQRnICO40ktROfnMfMx&ll=28.32539938673654%2C107.66879216044128&z=5