New data suggests the two West Coast states may have slowed the spread of coronavirus. How they did it.
. “If this thing was expanding in the way epidemics do when they’re not being mitigated or addressed, the growth [would be] exponential.”has been doubling every seven or eight days in Washington and every four or five days in California — far slower than in New York, where it’s been doubling every two or three days.
Cases will continue to rise in California and Washington, and the death toll will continue to climb. Things will get worse before they get better. But the situation on the West Coast will likely not be as bad as it would have otherwise been — or as bad as it still could be elsewhere. According toestimates that as many as 177,000 Americans may die from COVID-19 by August .
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