Rhode Island is stopping cars from New York state at their border. If you watched Contagion, this happened in the movie. Rhode Island is also worried about people from NYC who have fled to second homes on the Rhode Island coast (most of you haven't been to Rhode Island ... it's really small but has a lot of coast).
Now that the U.S. has gotten around to a couple of weeks of testing, we now have the biggest epidemic in the world. That's not too surprising. We are number 3 in population, India is in denial, and China has fudged its numbers (and, in their defense, don't forget that they both ran out of tests, and out of testing capacity).
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I expected us to blow by Katrina for death tolls today. The forecasting spreadsheet I've uploaded to Canvas for cases in the U.S., when extended to deaths, predicts this will pass the death toll of 9/11 on Monday.
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