Rapid acceleration of U.S. #coronavirus cases:
Jan. 21: 1
Jan. 31: 7
Feb. 10: 13
Feb. 20: 27
Feb. 29: 70
Mar. 10: 1,018
Mar. 20: 17,935
Mar. 30: 160,718 (3,002 dead)
Apr. 10: 499,252 (18,637 dead)
(Sources: CDC, Johns Hopkins Univ., NYT, CNN) (more)

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Ominously, the U.S. mortality rate from confirmed #coronavirus cases is surging
Mar. 22: 1.25% death rate
Mar. 27: 1.51%
Mar. 30: 1.86%
Apr. 1: 2.36%
Apr. 3: 2.46%
Apr. 5: 2.72%
Apr. 7: 3.22%
Apr. 8: 3.42%
Apr. 9: 3.58%
Apr. 10: 3.73%
the common flu? About 0.2%

1) Trump on Fox on March 5th: "Well, I think the 3.4% rate is really a false number." (WHO's global death rate estimate)
2) In the U.S it is now higher than that: 3.73% (see prior tweet) ##