Here’s bigg red’ post from earlier question on roberts question:
No, Roberts was not joking; he was referring to a story that CNN had run. The story claimed that Trump, prior to the pandemic, had disbanded the pandemic team. Trump asked Roberts why he was repeating fake news.
And I tried tonight to match the last few days' data with a further reduced exponential function, or modified exponential (with coefficient reducing a fixed amount daily for the Numbers FReeQs).
This effort was unsuccessful. Although there has been a little growth in the DAILY number of new cases since 3/27 (conceivably related to expanded testing), it is no longer exponential. This is good.
There were 1,040 deaths today, as opposed to 1,101 yesterday. I had hoped yesterday was more of an anomaly and that increased testing would expose more mild cases thereby lowering the death percentage. (I AM STILL HOPING this will turn out to be the case.)
United States COVID-19 Confirmed Cases
Date Daily Total Reduced
Growth Cases Exponential
Actual Actual Model
3/14/2020 2,717
3/15/2020 761 3,478
3/16/2020 1,167 4,645
3/17/2020 1,717 6,362
3/18/2020 1,407 7,769
3/19/2020 5,911 13,680
3/20/2020 5,605 19,285
3/21/2020 7,462 26,747
3/22/2020 8,478 35,225 35,225
3/23/2020 11,107 46,332 44,031
3/24/2020 8,816 55,148 55,039
3/25/2020 13,870 69,018 68,799
3/26/2020 16,635 85,653 85,999
3/27/2020 19,363 105,016 107,498
3/28/2020 19,448 124,464 134,373
3/29/2020 17,892 142,356 167,966
3/30/2020 22,003 164,359 209,957
3/31/2020 25,151 189,510 262,447
4/1/2020 27,005 216,515 328,058
4/2/2020 . 410,073
4/3/2020 . 512,591
4/4/2020 . 640,739
4/5/2020 . 800,924
4/6/2020 . 1,001,155
4/7/2020 . 1,251,443
4/8/2020 . 1,564,304
4/9/2020 . 1,955,380
4/10/2020 . 2,444,225
4/11/2020 . 3,055,282
4/12/2020 . 3,819,102
NOTE: "Recovered" Cases--which I guess means released from medical treatment--increased by 1,696 today. That number is also growing. When the DAILY sum of recovered cases and deaths exceeds the DAILY NEW CASES, we will really be on the downslope side of this thing.watch the clip - Roberts was raising dem talking points in a jocular way, but when he mentioned the pandemic team, DJT got POed.