HOWEVER, this is FAR FROM the exponential growth we experienced in the early part of the epidemic, up until about March 22.
Certainly this is impacted by more testing. This should eventually stop being a factor.
What we REALLY WANT TO SEE is for the "Daily Growth Actual" to start trending downward.
United States COVID-19 Confirmed Cases:
Date Daily Total Projected
Growth Cases Exponential
Actual Actual Cases
3/14/2020 2,717 2,717
3/15/2020 761 3,478 3,631
3/16/2020 1,167 4,645 4,904
3/17/2020 1,717 6,362 6,696
3/18/2020 1,407 7,769 9,249
3/19/2020 5,911 13,680 12,926
3/20/2020 5,605 19,285 18,290
3/21/2020 7,462 26,747 26,211
3/22/2020 8,478 35,225 38,060
3/23/2020 11,107 46,332 56,027
3/24/2020 8,816 55,148 83,654
3/25/2020 13,870 69,018 126,753
3/26/2020 16,635 85,653 195,004
I'm reporting a little early tonight, but the data seems to have settled down.
ThanQ for that infection data.