On the 28th of February we checked the number of Covid virus in US. I remember

[Maraya1969]

the number 55. Today the number is 3,143.

The square root of 3,143 is 56

That is exponential growth in 2 weeks.

Shit.

[uponit7771]

1. K&R, We need unfettered testing and isolation !!! We can't get that right now so we're screwed

[onenote]

2. I think you mean 28th of February?

[Maraya1969]

6. Fixed. eom

[magicarpet]

3. I think you might have meant February not March.

[Claritie Pixie]

4. Yes. Did you calculate out 2 weeks from now?

[Maraya1969]

5. Yes, but the number is so bad I was afraid to post it. And I don't think it is going with

normal numbers. Anyway 3,025 X 3,025 = 9,1506,25

I hope that is wrong.

[Brainfodder]

8. That's well under 5% but still a dick move got us here, yeah we should be pissed as pissed gets?

K&R

GOOD LUCK!

[Maraya1969]

7. It makes me wonder when China started to take action. The 9 million number is if

it remains unchecked. Scary shit.

[VMA131Marine]

9. That's not how you figure out if it's exponential growth

In any case, in the initial stages the number of cases grows geometrically.

Your numbers say that the number of cases has doubled about 6 times in 15 days. That’s a doubling period of 2.5 days. If that continues, there will be over 201,000 cases (cumulative) by the end of March and 12,000,000 by mid April.

[Maraya1969]

11. That makes sense. And that is worse!