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_dp9d on March 15, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Open letter from Italy to the international scient...

Canada has a population of 38 million, and only 150 confirmed cases.

But one of those cases is the Prime Minister's wife.

Do we really think there are only 150 cases?

It's obviously way, way, way higher than that.

sidek on March 15, 2020 [–]

Mme. Grégoire Trudeau seems to have contracted the novel coronavirus in the UK, so your datapoint doesn't really suggest anything about the situation in Canada.

dmitriy_ko on March 15, 2020 | [–]

Many people travel between UK and Canada.

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