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by blencdr 2276 days ago
Right, in some countries doubling was every 3 days.
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Have a look at this site: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

Scroll down to "Daily New Cases in the United States". No real need to extrapolate data from other countries. New cases are doubling every 2-3 days.

Those aren't cases, those are confirmed cases. Which has more to do with how much testing we have done than how many are sick.
Problem with looking at case numbers is, you need to know how many tests have been executed. If they doubled the number of tests within those 3 days, then you measure the increase in tests, not an increase in cases.
That was the case for Italy until 4-5 days ago and I think it still is for Spain, definitely for Germany.