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Re:Please poke holes in my Covid-19 math (SF Bay Area) by wcoenen on Sunday March 15, 2020 @06:34PM (#22587443)
> closer to 7 days (10% growth in cases per day) than to 3 days (41% growth in cases per day).

A doubling time of 3 days corresponds to 26% growth per day (not 41%), because 1.26^3 ≈ 2.

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Re:Please poke holes in my Covid-19 math (SF Bay Area) by kragen on Sunday March 15, 2020 @06:54PM (#22587590)
You are of course correct. I don't know how I made such a glaring calculation error in the first place or how it slipped past me. That explains why Italy's doubling time is so close to 3 days (it's doubling every 4 days) despite being so much less than 26% growth per day. Thank you for the correction.
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