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Corona Prediction Thread: When will infection growth level off?

Posted on 3/20/20 at 8:58 am
Posted by okietiger
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Posted on 3/20/20 at 8:58 am
I think we're probably looking at a solid 2 months of shutdowns.

And I know you can't really trust China nor their data BUT if you look at China and Korea, it appears we may be able to weather 2 months of widespread shutdowns before this thing levels off.

What say you? Shorter? Longer? End of the World?
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Posted by Chef Free Gold Bloom
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Posted on 3/20/20 at 8:59 am to
quote:

When will infection growth level off?


it’s only growing right now because we keep increasing testing.

People aren’t getting infected at astronomical rates. That’s not what happening.

Everyone is already infected and people have been infected since at least January.

It just looks like infection are skyrocketing because we’re finally testing for it and only testing those with multiple symptoms
Posted by DownshiftAndFloorIt
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When the rate of testing levels off.

This thing cant be extremely infectious, extremely deadly, in country since January, AND spreading at a slow controllable rate. One of those is not true.
This post was edited on 3/20/20 at 9:01 am
Posted by TH03
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Posted on 3/20/20 at 9:00 am to
quote:

it’s only growing right now because we keep increasing testing.



Yes and no, honestly, but it all boils down to testing. It's hard to trust any of the numbers coming out because of the lack of testing.
Posted by PearlJam
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12 more days
Posted by bbeck
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Month minimum
Posted by Chef Free Gold Bloom
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quote:

appears we may be able to weather 2 months of widespread shutdowns before this thing levels off.


A communist country with no welfare system that doesn’t give a shite about letting half of its population starve to death or go unemployed can weather two months of a complete country shut down. A capitalist country cannot weather two months of a complete shutdown. That would be catastrophic for the United States. It will be catastrophic for those countries too, they just don’t give a shite about their citizens.
This post was edited on 3/20/20 at 9:07 am
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10 days from today
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Posted by Winston Cup
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never its a virus it is always gonna be like this. enjoy never doing anything socially ever again
Posted by Pendulum
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Posted on 3/20/20 at 9:05 am to
quote:

And I know you can't really trust China nor their data BUT if you look at China and Korea


I'm a little worried about thinking that we can do this as well as those subservient societies, that either had mass testing at the very beginning, or locked down right away.

Is that the narrative you want to push?
Posted by Chef Free Gold Bloom
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Posted on 3/20/20 at 9:06 am to
quote:

This thing cant be extremely infectious, extremely deadly, in country since January, AND spreading at a slow controllable rate. One of those is not true.


Correct.

And it’s only droplet spread not airborne.
Posted by Burhead
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Posted on 3/20/20 at 9:07 am to
My guess? Peak ends in April/early May, rates start slowing in May and June. July through September we see some cases and then we'll see another big spike during the winter and until we get the vaccine.
Posted by DeafJam73
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Posted on 3/20/20 at 9:07 am to
We don’t really know because we can’t test everyone. We need more test kits for real data.
Posted by Privateer 2007
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We don't know. Because vast majority of positive people aren't tested.
Posted by NYNolaguy1
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For me it comes down to when you see the death start to level off on an log scale from the current exponential rate it is on.

Honestly I don't know when that would be, but at least 2 weeks.
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6/1/2020
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Mid-April.

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