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jberryhill

(62,444 posts) Sat Mar 28, 2020, 08:36 PM Mar 2020

123k is about 1 in every 2700 people

Of known cases, that is.

Obviously, the probability of any particular person being infected depends on where you might be.

Nationally, it would be 1 in 2700.

In NY state it would be (53k/20M) : 1 in 377.

But a lot of that is concentrated in the NYC metropolitan area (31k/8.7M) : 1 in 280.