How To Tell If We're Beating COVID-19

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RESOURCES
Grant’s 3Blue1Brown Video: Exponential Development and Upsurges: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kas0tIxDvrg

Aatish’s Exponential/Logistic Curve-Fitting Site: https://github.com/aatishb/covid/blob/master/curvefit.ipynb

Information Source: https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19
Our World in Information Page on Coronavirus: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus

The number of tests for COVID-19 are being performed worldwide? https://ourworldindata.org/covid-testing

Comprehending logarithmic scales: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/ health/coronavirus-data-logarithm- chart.html

What we can learn from the countries winning the coronavirus battle: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-26/ coronavirus-covid19- global-spread-data-explained/12089028
( Great explainer on log scales and growth curves described in the context of COVID-19 in various countries).

This video is a collaboration with Aatish Bhatia about how to see the COVID-19 tipping point – we provide a better way to graph COVID-19 coronavirus cases using a logarithmic scale in “stage area” – outlining the development rate versus the cumulative cases, rather than either of these against time.

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