This is called the R naught equation.
Stupid. Not exponential. Epidemics rise and fall in a bell-shaped curve. AIDS, SARS, Ebola, seasonal flu.
Sounds like one of those stupid Common Core “gotcha” questions. How about providing the total square footage of the pond and the average size of a lily pad for us really old farts that like to calculate things by good, old-fashion mathematics?..../s
Still racing around screaming hysteric chicken little lies again today I see.
Real facts for those interested in Science and data not politically motivated panic mongering and lying.
121,340 total cased WORLD WIDE. 50,00 active cases 70,000 resolved case
4380 deaths. Average age of death: 80 years old
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
It’s good that this has given the little known and little brained journalists at the Post and Times something to do.
Keep their little hands and brains busy and don’t play in traffic.
Where do they find these chicken littles?
Look the Infection rate is slowing worldwide. 1 precisely 1 person under the age of 20 has died from this.
4000 or so worldwide.
If this was the end of days virus you would see infection rates at 70-80 or 90% on these cruise ships and you aren’t.
Folks really need to calm down.
The death rate from COVID-19 in the US since March 1 has been fairly flat, not exponential. So that would be one important statistic that contradicts the Fake News Washington Post headline about the danger being exponential.
As far as the rate of the number of people who are getting COVID-19 in the US, its hard to say if it's exponential, because the data is skewed by the lack of test kits that were available early on and the large recent increase in the availability of test kits.
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