[Brian Griffin]

The battle will mainly be over in less than eight weeks.

The virus is too contagious and even I am not careful enough to avoid infection.

[Hieronymus]

The battle will mainly be over in less than eight weeks.

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By this you mean that all efforts at containment will be judged futile and the world shifts into picking-up-the-pieces mode?

My guess is six to sixteen weeks.

That said, if South Korea, which is a model thus far, has concluded that whatever they are doing can’t ultimately hold back the flood, you may very well be right that the low end is more likely than the high end.

[MustKnowHistory]

Some have argued that as more people get it and recover with no issues, they will cut as natural circuit breakers and will stop the exponential growth of the virus.

Not every projection of the numbers takes this factor into account.