Chart comparing Italy v US cases

[angrychair]

Here's the last 8 days of US #covid19 testing mapped to Italy's numbers starting on 2/22. The trend looks awful similar. https://t.co/zZ3ng396Jf

Link to tweet

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[Chemisse]

1. Rather alarming.

It's hard to fathom really. It all still seems so hypothetical.

[angrychair]

2. It really does

Plus its really hard to get an accurate number of infected in US but it appears to be around 1,300 but that number is likely wrong.
With an R nought of 2.3 to 3.3 that number likely to be greater than 10,000.

Test rates here in Washington is about 10% of people tested are positive. I've tracked that number for almost 2 weeks and that 10% positive rate has held steady.
Numbers we are working with are very small but it makes

Even if just 1% of Seattle is positive for Coronavirus that's over 7,000 people

[uponit7771]

3. K&R, HORROR ... MOVIE ... SHIT !!!

[ThoughtCriminal]

4. I wish it included the source

This needs to be shared, but with something better than "A chart I saw on twitter".

Does anybody know where the original can be sourced?

[angrychair]

5. Going to look for it

Chris Hayes referenced it tonight so it must be out there somewhere

[D_Master81]

6. Didn't Italy have 2500 new cases just today?

I thought I saw somewhere they are over 10,000 with 2500 new today.