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The growth rate was only 7.3% yesterday. The situation's improving. -- nm

Posted by David (aka David) Apr 8 '20, 22:19

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assuming the data's good. America still isn't testing enough, today's data has like a 20% positive rate, and that's not dropping much day to day. -- nm - mafic Apr 8, 22:39 3
- Again, I'm confident that the numbers are 2-3 times as high as reported. Even so, single digits growth was always the goal. - David Apr 8, 22:50 2
  - if the data's not representative, then the growth isn't reliable. If I was going to be a statistician about it I'd look at things like what - mafic Apr 8, 23:40 1
    - I agree. This is like if ERC reported numbers from some theaters one day, other theaters another day, and then just kept doing it randomly. -- nm - Qale Apr 9, 05:03
Did you see the story about how the feds are withdrawing funding and shutting down test sites? -- nm - Beryllium Apr 8, 22:31 2
- I did, yes. -- nm - David Apr 8, 22:48 1
  - It was only meant as a stop gap until states could take over. Uh-huh, yeah sure. Then the feds should quit taking any credit. -- nm - . Apr 9, 02:26

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