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50,000 New Cases today (Original Post)
montanacowboy
Jul 2020
OP
RockRaven
(15,076 posts)1. A grim milestone which Trump marked by saying it was going to disappear soon
Again. On Foxnews.
Quixote1818
(29,018 posts)2. That is really likely around a half million today as testing only catches about 1 in 10 cases. nt
Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)5. Maybe the high positivity make it less worse
I think I read that the percentage of people who are tested and tested positively was unexpectedly higher.
Would it be valid to do something like the positivity rate was say 33% so maybe its 50*3=150k?
Its horrible either way.
I always struggle with probability so just asking.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,860 posts)3. Saw it on Worldometers just now.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,860 posts)4. Meanwhile, at a local recreation center...
... I saw soccer and baseball being played by kids, with the adults jammed together without masks as they yelled and cheered.
I'm in SW Ohio where the infections are already known to be increasing too.
So absolutely ridiculous!
Bettie
(16,145 posts)6. 51,097 on World O Meter
end of day numbers. 676 dead.