Originally Posted by
Rob Waskis
The number of new deaths per day in Italy as reported by the WHO has been very flat (i.e. not growing) for 10 days in a row (mean of 756).
I'm not sure what to make of the US fatality numbers, but they sure as hell don't look like they're growing exponentially when you plot them. The last ten days were: 201, 69, 202, 211, 107, 252, 425, 444, 293, 455. Trending up to be sure, but not exponentially so from what I can see.
It's also interesting that the number of cases in the Western Pacific, Eastern Mediterranean, Africa, and South East Asia regions still do not appear to be growing exponentially.
The number of new cases in Europe has fallen three days in a row from a high of 37,646 to 31,141.
This should all be good news, unless you make your living scaring people with headlines and quotes taken out of context.