03-15-2020, 07:09 PM
I agree that worldometers is the best. And I also agree we can't trust the Chinese numbers. 1.4 billion people, horrible sanitation and hygiene, over-crowded cities and only 80k cases and 3k deaths? Numbers don't add up. I lived in Wuhan for 2 years and I can tell you the environment is tailor-made for viruses to spread exponentially.
At any rate I believe the US has the fortune of having some advanced time that Europe didn't really enjoy along with some other advantages (population more spread out for example). I think there are going to be some really bad pockets of the country that get hit hard and essentially are isolated while other places are able to avoid the surge of cases. Manhattan in particular is in real risk of an epic disaster if they don't go on fully Italy-style lockdown soon.
At any rate I believe the US has the fortune of having some advanced time that Europe didn't really enjoy along with some other advantages (population more spread out for example). I think there are going to be some really bad pockets of the country that get hit hard and essentially are isolated while other places are able to avoid the surge of cases. Manhattan in particular is in real risk of an epic disaster if they don't go on fully Italy-style lockdown soon.