Wednesday, April 01, 2020

What an Exponential Rise in Deaths Looks like as this comes down

Using a factor of only 20% increase per day here's how it plays out.  Pandemics are never cumulative, they are exponential till they are exhausted.
 
EXPONENTIAL PROJECTION V ACTUAL COUNTS 

  April 1st Actual 4,000
     4,800    2  Actual 5100
      5,760    3  Actual 6059
     6,912    4  Actual 7146
      8,294   5  Actual  8492
      9,953    6  Actual  9643
      11,944    7  Actual 10,980
14,333    8
17,199    9
20,639    10
24,767    11
29,720    12
35,664    13
42,797    14
51,357    15
61,628    16
73,954    17
88,744    18
106,493    19
127,792    20 April 20th

I am not convinced it will run the full course.  At some point the virus exhausts from a lack of vulnerable hosts and victims.  Yet, this is serious and needs to be understood by Mathematics.

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