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Re:Experts Warn of Possible Sustained Global Spread of New C... by yread on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @03:34AM (#22167544)
This is one scary graph

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Log-linear_plot_of_corono...

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Re:Experts Warn of Possible Sustained Global Spread of New C... by phreeza on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @05:59AM (#22168214)
A logistic curve looks exponential until it doesn't. There is no telling just from looking at this when it will plateau.
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Re:Experts Warn of Possible Sustained Global Spread of New C... by mirimir on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @04:47AM (#22167881)
Yeah, and if you project to Feb 28, you get ~100 million deaths. Deaths have plateaued somewhat over the past few days, but even then we're looking at a million or so.
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