>>>COVID-19 spreads exponentially...
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>I made the point re exponential infection curve some days ago, but then China had only 19 new cases on Monday. Meanwhile Italy is seeing an exponential increase similar to that seen in Wuhan in early days. Meanwhile, while this isn't an official site (and still quotes 3.6% mortality) it has good regional graphs showing exponential increase in Europe and America but no longer in Asia which dominates the stats: https://covid19info.live/

Yes I ran across that URL a few days ago. I am guessing (and it is just a guess) that our graph will be similar to how it's gone in Italy.

>We may yet learn that this new sort of virus burns bright, but brief. Let us hope that is the case...

Yes lets hope that is the case -- and it often is so we have reason to be optimistic about that.