<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">I doubt Iran’s number even more than China’s.<br><br><div dir="ltr">SR Ballard</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Apr 3, 2020, at 7:47 AM, John Clark via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font size="4">Just thought I'd give you some statistics. Only 2 countries in the world have a higher number of COVID-19 deaths than the US, Italy and Spain. Italy's number of deaths is doubling every 10 days. Spain's number of deaths is doubling every 6 days. The number of deaths in the US is doubling every 3 days, and no nation that has had more than 25 deaths has a faster doubling time <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">than</span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span> that. Iran, which not long ago was considered the prototypical example of a nation that had totally bungled it's response to the virus, has a doubling time of 2 weeks.</font><div><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark</span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span></font></div></div>
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