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8. Folks, US number of cases 8 times bigger than reported, CDC says (November 27), so 41.9%
Wed Dec 16, 2020, 10:33 PM
Dec 2020

of the U.S. population has been infected if that is true:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/coronavirus-updates-thanksgiving-nfl-games-reduced-millions-travel-us-misses-8-virus-cases-for-every-1-counted-cdc-says/ar-BB1bno0s?ocid=msedgdhp

Worldometers says U.S. total number of (reported) cases 17.4 million, or 52,404 per million population. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Now, if the CDC is right, mulitply the above by 8:
139.2 million, or 419,232 per million population. That's 41.9% of the U.S. population.

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By the way, per this, California has the 8th highest number of new cases PER CAPITA, 7 day moving average
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html

California (and its counties) details:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/california-coronavirus-cases.html

A 128% increase in daily new cases over 14 days (specificallly 7 day moving average on Dec 15 vs. 7 day moving average on Dec 1). That's a 2.28 fold increase.

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