Tracking #COVID19: if you want to look at growth, it's log graphs that rule
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/health/coronavirus-data-logarithm-chart.html?smid=tw-nytimesscience&smtyp=cur … by @kchangnytpic.twitter.com/2LlO6REd8V
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But some of this merely reflects the testing backlog. This kind of chart doesn't tell you that March 12th, the US tested 2300 people for the virus, but on March 19 there were over 27,400 people tested.
True. What's remarkable about this is that the exponential nature of the curve is robust despite all of complicating factors (spotty testing, different parts of the country, uneven response, people are weird individuals).
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Because the growth of TESTS has been exponential! So of course so is our detection
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Data to back that up? I highly, highly doubt that the number of tests has been doubling every three days.
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