re: #266 garzooma

Good point, but I’d take issue a bit with the following:

Our population is something over 5x Italy’s, so we need to reach 3000 to get where Italy was when it was at 600.

That said, it may well happen in a week or two.

This is why the 600 comparison is significant:

Here’s what the last 5 days of #COVID19US growth look like mapped to the Italian epidemic starting 2/22. Trajectory looks awful similar. pic.twitter.com/JvMcVZOlpA

— Eli Pariser (@elipariser) March 9, 2020