<story><title>CA governor projecting 25.5M COVID19 cases in CA in 8 weeks [pdf]</title><url>https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/3.18.20-Letter-USNS-Mercy-Hospital-Ship.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jdminhbg</author><text>As pointed out below[0], this is a sensationalist headline and should be changed. This is the projection if &lt;i&gt;no measures&lt;/i&gt; were taken.&lt;p&gt;Which makes sense: if 56% of the population is going to contract coronavirus in the next eight weeks, then the lockdown is pointless. You&amp;#x27;re nearly to herd immunity at that point, why cripple the economy if it doesn&amp;#x27;t even make a dent in the transmission rate.&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=22634268&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=22634268&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jader201</author><text>&amp;gt; As pointed out below[0], this is a sensationalist headline and should be changed.&lt;p&gt;The title was based on the entirety of the linked content — the letter from the CA governor to the president — which included no context around the numbers being based on no measures being taken.</text></comment>
<story><title>CA governor projecting 25.5M COVID19 cases in CA in 8 weeks [pdf]</title><url>https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/3.18.20-Letter-USNS-Mercy-Hospital-Ship.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jdminhbg</author><text>As pointed out below[0], this is a sensationalist headline and should be changed. This is the projection if &lt;i&gt;no measures&lt;/i&gt; were taken.&lt;p&gt;Which makes sense: if 56% of the population is going to contract coronavirus in the next eight weeks, then the lockdown is pointless. You&amp;#x27;re nearly to herd immunity at that point, why cripple the economy if it doesn&amp;#x27;t even make a dent in the transmission rate.&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=22634268&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=22634268&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aazaa</author><text>The headline accurately reflects the content of the letter:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; ... We project roughly 56 present of our population - 25.5 million people -- will be infected with the virus over an eight week period.&lt;p&gt;There is no qualification to that statement.</text></comment>