Ohio likely has 100,000 coronavirus cases, top health official says

Fox News ^ | March 13, 2020 | Edmund DeMarche

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Ohio health officials announced Thursday that the state has five known cases of the coronavirus, but one expert said that the number is likely much higher and estimated 100,000 undiagnosed cases...Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican, tweeted her comment to his followers, warning the state’s 11.7 million residents that about 1 % are infected...His office said the state expects cases to double every six days, News 5 Cleveland reported.

[riri]

Few cases have been resolved yet.

That has been the troubling aspect of this since day 1.

Also the growing number of reports of reinfection.

The number of people between infected and dead is troubling.

Ofcourse, that can happen. When we had H1N1 here a few years back, it was probably a solid six weeks before any of us felt 100%. It would knock you down, you'd go back up and get knocked down again.

Or it could be a sign of something more ominous. I supposed time will tell what we are up against.

[Fury]

I'll update the four threads I saw about the 100,000 number, but the latest is that the doctor was using a "guesstimate"

Ohio Governor’s Alarming Claim About The Number Of Coronavirus Cases Was Based On A ‘Guesstimate’

- see https://dailycaller.com/2020/03/13/ohio-governor-coronavirus-100000/

"I am not saying there are absolutely for certain 100,000 people,” Dr. Amy Acton, the director of the Ohio Department of Health, said at a press conference Friday. “I’m saying I’m guesstimating. If I’m guesstimating community spread, that’s my best number.”

^ is why people are untrusting and suspicious of government. Throwing numbers out there without calculation as to *how* you came up with that number is disgraceful.

The public deserves better during these trying times.