It's the American virus now. 23.5% of all new cases worldwide are here in the u.s.

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https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

[Igel]

1. Was it the Italian virus at some point? n/t

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2. Somewhere there's probably an anti-Italian bigot who probably thinks so....

[marble falls]

3. 10% of the population - 25% of the new infections. Thanks a lot Donnie.

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5. we're actually only 4.25% of the world population

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-country/

[StarryNite]

4. Watch tRump tell everybody

it's okay to mingle now. Fill up those churches! Spread the love and the virus. He wants America to be #1 at everything.

[NickB79]

6. 20,000 new cases in the US today alone

65,000 and rising, with over 900 dead. We'll break 1,000 dead by tomorrow morning. 100,000 cases by Saturday.

[denem]

7. 10,000 new cases.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

[NickB79]

10. That's weird, a search for "Coronavirus" on Bing gives this

UNITED STATES CASES
Updated Mar 25 at 6:32 PM local
Confirmed
64,675
+20,801
Deaths
910
+352
Recovered
393
+215

[pat_k]

8. Not new cases. Newly detected cases.

Different parts of the world are testing, and detecting, at such radically different rates, we really have no idea what percent of the world's cases are within our borders.

The big jumps are due primarily to the skyrocketing testing rate in NY and WA... and increasing rates in other states.

See this post for an interesting article ("Using a delay-adjusted case fatality ratio to estimate under-reporting" )
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=13173356

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9. Right, still plenty of unknowns.

In any event, it's clear we're at the epicenter of the pandemic now.

[pat_k]

11. Yes. If the estimates in the referenced article are...

... anywhere near reality, the true number of cases in the US is more like 440,000 than 66,000 (they estimate that the number detected is something like 12 to 18% of actual).