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Originally Posted by Arles
My answer was in response to the idea that Italy and Spain are around 1,000 new cases a day and the US is at 15,000. The US is running close to 400K tests a day (which is about a week of Spain or Italy). Clearly Italy and Spain are seeing fewer cases (and running fewer tests), but it's not like they are at 1K and we are at 15K doing the same number of tests.
The current setup in the US is very regional. About 1/4 of the new cases and about 40% of the daily deaths are in the NE. You have a small pocket in Chicago that is still hot, but the rest of the US seems OK. Even places like Texas and California that are getting more cases (because of ramped up testing) have fairly small death numbers. 70% of the states have less than 200 deaths per million population. That's better than nearly every European country than Germany and on par with Canada. So, we are in an interesting time of much of the south, midwest and west being somewhat "safe" to move around in while we have hotspots in the NE and places like Chicago and Pittsburgh. It's an odd situation to be in as a country. What we need is to really social distance in these hotter areas over the next two months.
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Pittsburgh has been good. Philadelphia on the other hand is a hot spot.