ANALYSIS: Five errors coronavirus 'armchair experts' keep getting wrong
. Because of the way infections grow exponentially , the jump from 1.3 to 2.8 means COVID-19 is vastly more infectious than flu.
When you combine all these statistics, you can see the motivation behind our public health measures to "limit the spread". It's not only that COVID-19 is so deadly, it's deadlyA simple graph might plot the number of new COVID cases over time. But as new cases might be reported erratically, statisticians are more interested in the rate of growth of total cases over time. The steeper the upwards slope on the graph, the more we should be worried.in cases. Put simply, unrestrained COVID cases can lead to a continuously growing number of more cases. This gives us a graph that tracks slowly at the start, but then sharply curves upwards with time.
This is the curve we want to flatten, as shown below. However, social media posts routinely compare COVID-19 figures with those of other causes of death that show:
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