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uponit7771

(90,359 posts) Sun Mar 29, 2020, 06:04 PM Mar 2020

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Did our deaths just double !??!?! Watching MSNBC waiting on doctors

Did our deaths just double !??!?! Watching MSNBC waiting on doctors to talk.

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Did our deaths just double !??!?! Watching MSNBC waiting on doctors (Original Post) uponit7771 Mar 2020 OP

How many total now? coti Mar 2020 #1

Worldometer has us at 2457. Maybe they meant in the last week. jimfields33 Mar 2020 #2

US reached 1,000 dead on Wednesday coti Mar 2020 #4

Or that. Seems like we've been dealing with this for a year. jimfields33 Mar 2020 #5

Not from what I can tell. ffr Mar 2020 #3

They briefly flashed 5 thousand something deaths!!! Olafjoy Mar 2020 #6

I saw that too. LisaM Mar 2020 #7

That is not been reported on any of Bev54 Mar 2020 #8

+1 uponit7771 Mar 2020 #9

Not yet - but expect them to stil be climbing at a very rapid rate - Ms. Toad Mar 2020 #10

Short of them reclaasifying ALL deaths with CV involved as CV nitpicker Mar 2020 #11

coti

(4,612 posts)

1. How many total now?

Reply to uponit7771 (Original post)

Sun Mar 29, 2020, 06:05 PM

Mar 2020

Total deaths is doubling roughly every 2 1/2 to 3 days. Moving at several hundred per day dead now.

jimfields33

(15,945 posts)

2. Worldometer has us at 2457. Maybe they meant in the last week.

Reply to uponit7771 (Original post)

Sun Mar 29, 2020, 06:06 PM

Mar 2020

coti

(4,612 posts)

4. US reached 1,000 dead on Wednesday

Reply to jimfields33 (Reply #2)

Sun Mar 29, 2020, 06:07 PM

Mar 2020

4 days ago.

jimfields33

(15,945 posts)

5. Or that. Seems like we've been dealing with this for a year.

Reply to coti (Reply #4)

Sun Mar 29, 2020, 06:08 PM

Mar 2020

ffr

(22,671 posts)

3. Not from what I can tell.

Reply to uponit7771 (Original post)

Sun Mar 29, 2020, 06:06 PM

Mar 2020

Relax. Hope you get better.

268 new deaths today in the U.S. so far recorded.

Olafjoy

(937 posts)

6. They briefly flashed 5 thousand something deaths!!!

Reply to uponit7771 (Original post)

Sun Mar 29, 2020, 06:09 PM

Mar 2020

OMG!! Then flashed back to 2500. Everywhere else says 2500.

LisaM

(27,828 posts)

7. I saw that too.

Reply to Olafjoy (Reply #6)

Sun Mar 29, 2020, 06:11 PM

Mar 2020

I was shocked at the huge increase.

Bev54

(10,070 posts)

8. That is not been reported on any of

Reply to LisaM (Reply #7)

Sun Mar 29, 2020, 06:22 PM

Mar 2020

the sites that follow the cases. Shows up 237 deaths and total is 2457. They are usually always ahead of any reported on the Networks.

uponit7771

(90,359 posts)

9. +1

Reply to Olafjoy (Reply #6)

Sun Mar 29, 2020, 06:23 PM

Mar 2020

Ms. Toad

(34,086 posts)

10. Not yet - but expect them to stil be climbing at a very rapid rate -

Reply to uponit7771 (Original post)

Sun Mar 29, 2020, 06:24 PM

Mar 2020

even if the slight decrease in growth of new cases is maintained. It will take roughly two weeks for the change in new cases to translate into a change in new deaths.

nitpicker

(7,153 posts)

11. Short of them reclaasifying ALL deaths with CV involved as CV

Reply to uponit7771 (Original post)

Sun Mar 29, 2020, 08:11 PM

Mar 2020

But I see no evidence of this in current statistics.

They MAY have been speculating on where the US will be in 3 days tine.

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